FAX needed By Weds for HB1658 (MO USA)

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Missouri House Bill 1658 (HB 1658) which would criminalize bestiality, is

finally moving and going for hearing before the Criminal Law Committee.

 

Help is needed by National Animal Welfare Groups, Missouri Animal Groups, and

all others alike.

 

HOW YOU CAN HELP

 

Please fax a Memorandum of Support for HB 1658 to the Criminal Law Committee

Chair, Representative Craig Hosmer, at (573) 751-9474. Please make these

Memo's brief (4 or 5 paragraphs maximum) and to the point. Faxing them vs.

e-mailing them will obtain better result, so please fax them.

 

An example Memorandum of Support is listed below, but please write your own,

so they all are not the same and are taken more seriously. To all who have

E-mailed legislators in Missouri concerning this Bill in the past need to do

this also for this hearing specifically. Also, ask Mr. Hosmer (the committee

chair) to distribute your memorandum to the rest of the committee.

 

EXAMPLE MEMORANDUM

 

MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT

MISSOURI HB 1658

 

RE: An Act to outlaw bestiality

 

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) and its

6,000 Missouri State supporters urge you to enact legislation that will make

sexual conduct with an animal a Class D felony. Twenty-four states already

have laws that prohibit this abhorrent practice.

 

The ASPCA believes that any sexual activity between humans and animals is

animal cruelty, regardless of the human perpetrator's beliefs or intentions.

Some people who practice bestiality literally rape the animal or force others

to have sexual intercourse with animals. The animals are often severely

injured and sometimes even killed.

 

Violence against animals is linked to violence against people. According to

the Missouri Department of Corrections, polygraph tests administered to 116

sexual offenders who were on parole or probation indicated that half of them

admitted to having had intercourse with an animal at some point in their

lives.

 

Unfortunately, because of the Internet, bestiality is on the rise. If you

type the word " bestiality " into any search engine you'll get more than

450,000 hits. The World Wide Web has become a source of support for

individuals who practice bestiality. They urge people practicing bestiality

to come forward and even offer training tips to newcomers. Shockingly,

parties are even held where people bring different types of animals to have

sexual contact with.

 

It is imperative that interspecies intercourse be banned in Missouri.

Individuals practicing bestiality should be guilty of a felony. The ASPCA

respectfully urges you to support this important legislation that would ban

bestiality and outlaw this appalling form of animal abuse.

 

 

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Please Help Make Bestiality Illegal in Missouri!!

 

Learn More on this Issue and How You Can Help

By Visiting:

 

http://members.tripod.com/~judymyers/zoolaw.html

 

 

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Mike Rolland

ASAIRS Executive director and information coordinator

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