ISAR is pleased to announce that its new monograph, ISAR’s Revolutionary Model Mandatory Spay/Neuter Statute is now available at its website, http://www.isaronline.org/, under Site Map/LAW/Monographs. (See our blog of Wednesday, July 2, 2008, for the Table of Contents). We encourage constructive comments.
Counting the six appendices—which provide extensive bibliographies of books, articles and statutes relating to mandatory spay/neuter, legal cases directly and indirectly on that subject, and a lengthy resource explaining the legislative process generally and how animal advocates can use it to achieve their goals—the monograph is 125 pages long. Interested persons are encouraged to download and/or print it, and they may reproduce the monograph in accordance with the permission conditions that appear on the copyright page.
The Introduction explains the context in which the monograph has been written, which is that mandatory spay/neuter “laws must be grounded not in hope, sentiment, or a benevolent opinion of mankind, but rather in the world as we find it—a real world where companion animals are too often thought of as virtually inanimate objects, mere property to be used and abused by humans.”
Part A, “The Policy Component of the Companion Animal Overpopulation Problem,” establishes the foundation premises upon which rest the remainder of the monograph: that there is today a huge national problem of companion animal overpopulation (Chapter I), that at present the only way to ameliorate it is through spay/neuter (Chapter II), and that these medical procedures must be made mandatory (Chapter III).
Part B, “The Legal Component of the Companion Animal Overpopulation Problem,” is necessarily the next consideration because if spay/neuter is to be mandatory, statutes of state-wide application will have to be enacted. To understand fully ISAR’s Revolutionary Model Mandatory Spay/Neuter Statute and the philosophy that underlies it, an analysis is necessary of existing spay/neuter statutes (Chapter IV). Only against that background can ISAR’s model statute be understood and appreciated (Chapter V). Once one is talking statutes, inevitably the question of constitutionality or unconstitutionality arises, a crucial consideration for mandatory spay/neuter legislation (Chapter VI). Finally, once the constitutional hurdle is surmounted, other related issues arise (Chapter VII): For purposes of enforcement and otherwise, how to identify all companion animals; low-cost spay/neuter for the indigent; early-age spay/neuter; Departments of Animal Affairs.
Part C, “The Legislative Component of the Companion Animal Overpopulation Problem,” reveals how even the worst alleged “mandatory spay/neuter” statutes can be subverted by politicians, as recently occurred in California (Chapter VIII). As an antidote to fruitless lobbying and craven legislators, ISAR presents a powerful resource for animal advocates who seek to maximize their chance of getting legislation introduced and enacted (Chapter IX).
Part D, “Morality and Spay Neuter” (Chapter X) makes the case that animal protection, and mandatory spay/neuter as one element in accomplishing that task, is at root a moral issue. The chapter concludes with the thought that “[a]s ISAR’s national billboards beseech the public: “Spay/Neuter: It Reduces the Killing.”
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ISAR's Revolutionary Model Mandatory Spay/Neuter Statute
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
A. The Policy Component of the Companion Animal Overpopulation
I. The nature and scope of the problem
II. The case for spay/neuter
III. Spay/Neuter of companion animals must be made mandatory
B. The Legal Component of the Companion Animal Overpopulation Problem
IV. Analysis and critique of existing mandatory spay/neuter statutes
V. Text and annotation of ISAR’s model mandatory spay/neuter statute
VI. Constitutionality of mandatory spay/neuter statutes
VII. Corollaries to mandatory spay/neuter statutes
C. The Legislative Component of the Companion Animal Overpopulation Problem
VIII. California’s worse than useless “mandatory” spay/neuter statute
IX. Successfully promoting animal protection legislation
D. The Moral Component of the Companion Animal Overpopulation Problem
X. Morality and mandatory spay/neuter
Appendices
1. Chapters I, II and III bibliography
III. Spay/Neuter of companion animals must be made mandatory
B. The Legal Component of the Companion Animal Overpopulation Problem
IV. Analysis and critique of existing mandatory spay/neuter statutes
V. Text and annotation of ISAR’s model mandatory spay/neuter statute
VI. Constitutionality of mandatory spay/neuter statutes
VII. Corollaries to mandatory spay/neuter statutes
C. The Legislative Component of the Companion Animal Overpopulation Problem
VIII. California’s worse than useless “mandatory” spay/neuter statute
IX. Successfully promoting animal protection legislation
D. The Moral Component of the Companion Animal Overpopulation Problem
X. Morality and mandatory spay/neuter
Appendices
1. Chapters I, II and III bibliography
2. State and municipal spay/neuter statutes
3. Proposed California “mandatory” spay neuter statute
4. State cases raising constitutional questions regarding animal-related legislation
5. Fiscal Impact of Cat and Dog Intake & Euthanasia in California Shelters
6. Table of Contents: Get Political for Animals and Win the Laws They Need
For more information about ISAR's Revolutionary Model Mandaory Spay/Neuter Statute, contact ISAR at contact@isaronline.org
Since its publication, the monograph has received considerable attention and has been used as a resource by animal custodians throughout the United States.
Recently, a lawyer who this summer will be teaching "Animal Law and Rights" at a New England law school asked for a copy of the monograph for use in his course. ISAR responded by offering him copies for all 25 of the students registered for the course, and he gladly accepted.
ISAR has additional copies in its inventory, and until we run out we'll make the same offer to any lawyer teaching an animal law course elsewhere.
Also, you may now read ISAR's monograph in its entirety on our website at www.isaronline.org.
Hello!
International Society for Animal Rights (ISAR) is new to Vox and would like to meet new people that could help us help animals by furthering our campaigns.
ISAR is an animal rights organization that utilizes law and education to serve animals as well as promotes the importance of spaying/neutering companion animals and the adoption option from local humane societies.
If anyone is interested in learning more about us and our programs, we would like to invite you to our website at http://www.isaronline.org.
A few of our programs that we would like to devote some more attention to are our petition campaigns. Please feel free to pass these links along to friends and family!
We look forward to your friendship!
http://www.isaronline.org/petition_spay_stamp.html
http://www.isaronline.org/petition_pet_population.html
http://www.isaronline.org/petition_animals_entertainment.html
If you do sign any of the petitions listed above, please let us know where you've heard about ISAR!
Hi Everyone!
We are new to this group and to Vox.
We are interested in meeting new people and making new friends.
International Society for Animal Rights (ISAR) is an animal rights organization utilizing law and education to serve animals. We also promote the importance of spay/neuter and the adoption option from local humane societies to reduce and one day eliminate the unnecessary killing of millions of healthy and lovable dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens each year in shelters simply "to make room".
We would like to extend an invitiation to visit our website at www.isaronline.org to learn more about our programs, but there is one in particular that this group may be especially interested in.
Since 1992, ISAR has set aside the third Saturday of August to commemorate and memorialize the animals that have lost their lives to the pet overpopulation epidemic. The day is titled International Homeless Animals' Day. With candlelight vigils, prayer services, speakers, etc...basically anything to raise awareness for the millions of animals killed each year, organizations and concerned individuals get together and promote campaigns and ignite new programs to educate others that the spay/neuter solution is the answer to eliminating pet overpopulation.
This year's International Homeless Animals' Day will be held on August 16, 2008.
If you are interested in learning more about this special day please visit ISAR here: http://www.isaronline.org/f/2007_autumn.pdf
If you would like to participate in ISAR's International Homeless Animals' Day please contact us:
http://www.isaronline.org/f/animals_day_coupon.pdf
Hi Everyone!
We are new to Vox and would like to introduce ourselves to your group.
International Society for Animal Rights (ISAR) is an animal rights organization that utilizes law and education to serve animals. We also promote the importance of spaying/neuter companion animals and the adoption option from local humane socities to reduce the numbers of loving and healthy animals killed in shelters each year simply "to make room".
We would like to invite you to our website (http://www.isaronline.org) to learn more about ISAR and our programs.
Since this is a group focusing on the legal side of things, we would also like to make mention of our monograph titled, "Harming Companion Animals: Liability and Damages". Many lawyers and State Representatives are requesting and making use of this booklet to fight for animal rights.
If anyone is interested in receiving a complimentary copy of Harming Companion Animals: Liability and Damages, simply contact us and let us know where you've heard about us.
Please stop by our Vox page and say hello!
Also, you may find below an excerpt of the introduction to "Harming":
Too often, especially with the advent of the Internet, advice is sought from International Society for Animal Rights from the custodians of companion animals about harm done to them by veterinarians through misdiagnosis, prescribing the wrong medicine, operating unnecessarily or not when they should, and committing every other kind of malpractice imaginable. We also receive heartbreaking reports of intentional acts of cruelty perpetrated against companion animals: dogs shot by neighbors, cats stoned by teenagers, horses maimed by sadists.
The media exposure now being given to the harm being visited upon companion animals causes nightmares for their custodians, who live in fear their animals may be the next victims.
Given what is now known about the emotional aspects of the human-animal bond, and how the millions of companion animal caretakers experience that bond, it’s not surprising that when harm is caused the custodian seeks some kind of recourse.
Often a complaint is made to prosecutors, the licensing authorities, or the Better Business Bureau. Sometimes newspaper announcements are placed, reporting what the wrongdoer did, or failed to do. Mostly, however, the reaction of choice is a lawsuit—usually not to recover damages for their own sake, but to expose the wrongdoer’s conduct, to prevent him from harming any animals in the future, and/or to punish him financially... http://www.isaronline.org/harming_animals.html
Hi Everyone!
We are new to this group, heck we are new to Vox completely.
We wanted to say hi and introduce ourselves.
International Society for Animal Rights (ISAR) is an animal rights organization focusing on law and education to serve animals, as well as promoting the importance of spay/neuter and the adoption option from your local humane societies.
We look forward to making new friends and maybe even gain some new volunteers.
We would like to invite all to visit our website at www.isaronline.org if you are interested in learning more about our programs.
Please stop by our Vox page or website to say hello!
Over two decades ago, Harvard University’s Office of Government and Community Affairs sponsored an in-depth study of the animal rights/welfare movement, including its goals and strategies
In its Report, Harvard noted that “[P]hilosophically, animal rights/welfare groups can be classified as abolitionists or regulationists. The abolitionists, such as ISAR…constitute a minority within a movement. They are, however, also the most diligent, tactical and clear thinking. They use the law; publications and education to work for their ultimate goals.”
What Harvard said then about ISAR remains true today.
International Society for Animal Rights (ISAR) was chartered in the District of Columbia nearly a half-century ago, making our organization one of the oldest humane education organizations in the United States.
ISAR is a tax exempt non-profit corporation, and contributions to it are tax deductible.
ISAR was the first organization in the United States (and probably the world) to use in its corporate name the moral principle of “animal rights.” The first federal and the first state court legal decisions to invoke the moral principle “animal rights” were in cases brought by International Society for Animal Rights.
ISAR’s founder, the late Helen Jones (click here for obituary), was one of the few pioneers in what would decades later become known as the animal rights movement. She fervently believed that humans have a moral responsibility to animals that could be satisfied only by working for an end to their suffering and exploitation. In furtherance of that goal, Helen Jones originated dozens of innovative educational programs and campaigns on behalf of animal rights, one of the most prominent being International Homeless Animals’ Day™.
One of Helen Jones’s most profound insights led to an ambitious program that for its audaciousness was unique to ISAR. Miss Jones, whose father was a small town lawyer, understood that an essential strategy for securing rights for animals was through the American legal system—a strategy that ISAR has employed for over three decades.
The history and accomplishments of International Society for Animal Rights are presented in our Power Point presentation, which can be accessed here.
International Society For Animal Rights
Law and Education Serving Animals
965 Griffin Pond Road
Clarks Summit, PA 18411
(570) 586-2200 Voice
(800) 543-ISAR Voice
(570) 586-9580 Fax
Contact@isaronline.org Email
http://www.isaronline.org Website
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