31 10 / 2012
Merp’s recent owner passed away suddenly and he found himself back at BARCS. He is housebroken and crate trained and a staff and volunteer favorite.
Merp was tied up in the bed of a pick up truck and abandoned in the city, animal control brought him to us at BARCS where he stayed until being adopted by a really nice man who just adored Merp. Unfortunately only 6 months later the man walked outside with Merp and died in the back yard. Merp sat faithfully by his side until help arrived so he is now back at BARCS.
He shows calm energy in the home but loves to play if you are interested!
Thanks to a generous donation from one of our volunteers, Merp comes with a free enrollment in the Pit Bull Academy 6 week course!
04 2 / 2012
Abortion Tactics and Conflicted Moral Ambivalence
If the Republicans had wanted to prevent abortions, they would have…
- Funded a thorough and mandatory sex education initiative from the earliest grades in all schools and combined it with the distribution of free contraceptives in all high schools, public and private (religious schools included)
- Legislated generous family leave for both mothers and fathers
- Provided federally funded day care as a national priority
- Expanded adoption services, including encouraging gay parents to adopt children, and they would have encouraged gay couples to marry and adopt
- Provided a generous tax incentive to have children and direct financial assistance and educational opportunities for all families, including single parents
- Raised taxes to pay for these programs
- Never have equated stem cell research with abortion, much less with murder, thereby making the anti-abortion position patently ridiculous
- Above all, they would have addressed the injustice of the growing gap between the superrich and everyone else and fought to raise the living standards of poor people. (Forty percent of all women seeking abortion live on $10,000 a year or less.)
