The Region - News from May 24, 1985

Dr. Leonard Bailey, who implanted a baboon’s heart in Baby Fae, canceled a speech on the ethics of the operation after learning it was open to the public, a spokesman at Loma Linda University Medical Center said. Bailey, chief of pediatric surgery at Loma Linda, near San Bernardino, was to have spoken to a medical class at the University of California, Irvine, on the ethics of organ transplants. However, spokesman Doug Schaeffer said that Bailey was not aware when he agreed to speak that the talk would be open to the public. He said animal rights groups, which have been critical of Bailey, placed posters around the community in an effort to attract opponents. Animal rights groups also were making plans to picket outside the university’s science lecture hall.