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New Effort To Grant Legal Rights To Chimpanzees Fails

Posted by timothy on from the what-about-monkeys dept.

sciencehabit writes Advocates of "legal personhood" for chimpanzees have lost another battle. This morning, a New York appellate court rejected a lawsuit by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) to free a chimp named Tommy from captivity. The group had argued that the chimpanzee deserved the human right of bodily liberty. Despite the loss, the NhRP is pursuing more cases in the hopes of conferring legal rights to a variety of animals, from elephants to dolphins.

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  1. Too bad by gelfling · · Score: 1, Funny

    Now Hillary Clinton will have to tag her daughter for the VP slot.

    1. Re:Too bad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      No, it's insulting to chimps

  2. Re:Damn Dirty Apes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    there is no way I'm ever extending personhood to non homo sapiens.

    Racist. These people deserve the same rights as anyone else, regardless of their ethnic background.

  3. Simple USA fix by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just declare chimps as corporations, THEN they'll have rights.

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  4. Re:Agree with court by BarbaraHudson · · Score: 1, Funny

    Most humans don't value their liberty over food, water, or safety. Or even TV. That's why bread and circuses has been a staple of governance for millennia.

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  5. The chimp didn't help his case by chinton · · Score: 3, Funny

    The chimp didn't help his case when he threw his own feces at the judge.

  6. Re:good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    What exactly separates humans from non-humans?

    Biology, you fucking idiot.