US judge grants 'human rights' to a pair of laboratory chimpanzees


Law & Order | 207645 hits | Apr 21 9:14 pm | Posted by: N_Fiddledog
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Affording Hercules and Leo the status of legal 'persons' means that the Long Island university where they are being held must now prove the legality of their imprisonment.

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  1. by avatar DrCaleb
    Wed Apr 22, 2015 1:02 pm
    Another bad title. The judge rules biomed research chimps are more than property. A far cry from affording them rights the same as a person.

  2. by avatar raydan
    Wed Apr 22, 2015 1:07 pm
    Somewhat misleading but accurate, they have been granted "some" human rights.

  3. by avatar DrCaleb
    Wed Apr 22, 2015 1:22 pm
    "raydan" said
    Somewhat misleading but accurate, they have been granted "some" human rights.


    As the summary says, Habeus Corpus allows the right to challenge detention, but "Person is not a synonym for �human being�, but designates an entity with the capacity for legal rights."

    I think it should go a lot farther, but then again I'm strange. There's an entire phylum of living organisms that humans tear the genetailla off of and wear as decoration! We don't often think of what we do! The carnage! ;)

  4. by avatar ShepherdsDog
    Wed Apr 22, 2015 2:12 pm

    There's an entire phylum of living organisms that humans tear the genitalia off of and wear as decoration!

    hey....we're men and our wives seem to like those earrings.

  5. by avatar andyt
    Wed Apr 22, 2015 2:28 pm
    "DrCaleb" said
    Somewhat misleading but accurate, they have been granted "some" human rights.


    As the summary says, Habeus Corpus allows the right to challenge detention, but "Person is not a synonym for �human being�, but designates an entity with the capacity for legal rights."

    I think it should go a lot farther, but then again I'm strange. There's an entire phylum of living organisms that humans tear the genetailla off of and wear as decoration! We don't often think of what we do! The carnage! ;)


    That's what you get when you flaunt your genitals to be sucked by any passing stranger.

  6. by avatar DrCaleb
    Wed Apr 22, 2015 2:54 pm
    "ShepherdsDog" said

    There's an entire phylum of living organisms that humans tear the genitalia off of and wear as decoration!

    hey....we're men and our wives seem to like those earrings.


    Women like flowers. ;)



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