Medical doctors and scientists who use animal subjects for their research studies will always be introduced to ethical issues. In the late 1970s scientists were doing research on heart transplant, which stirred up animal activists. The root of these studies on heart transplant started by transplanting hearts between different species (goats and baboons). One of the doctors involved in these studies was the chief cardiothoracic surgeon at Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC), Dr. Leonard Bailey. He later became the first doctor on the first-ever successful neonatal heart transplant in history at LLUMC. This started a controversy amongst animal activists, ethics experts, and medical professionals. Was it a breakthrough for the future of medicine or was it an abnormality? For months and years it troubled the minds of uninformed and uneducated people on the development and progress of medicine. No matter how much this case has aided advances in cardiothoracic surgeries some people still use the case of Baby Fae case as a vehicle to discuss ethical issues. On Sunday, October 14, 1984 Teresa Beauclair gave birth to Stephanie (known as Baby Fae), who was three weeks premature, at Barstow Community Hospital. Shortly after she was born the medical staff knew something was not right with the baby’s health and transferred Baby Fae to LLUMC. The doctors at LLUMC evaluated Baby Fae and concluded that there was nothing they could do to save her. She was born with hypo-plastic left heart syndrome, which had a low prognostic rate. When Teresa arrived to LLUMC, the doctors notified her of the status of Baby Fae and basically told her that the only options were to leave the baby at LLUMC and let her die, take her back to Barstow Community Hospital and die, or to go back home to die as well. It was a tough decision for Teresa since she was not prepared for her daughter’s unexpected death. She finally decided to stay at a motel and then go ba