Civil rights, women's rights, gay rights, criminals' rights, and now
equal rights for monkeys. Where will this liberal insanity end?






http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54959



Human rights for apes?

Growing movement wants to grant 'personhood'

Civil rights, women's rights, gay rights, criminals' rights, and now
equal rights for monkeys. Where will this liberal insanity end?

Civil rights, women's rights, gay rights, criminals' rights, and now
equal rights for monkeys. Where will this liberal insanity end?






http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54959



Human rights for apes?

Growing movement wants to grant 'personhood'



An international movement is growing to grant human rights and
"personhood" to apes.

In Austria, judges must decide whether a British woman should become
legal guardian of a chimpanzee, and in Spain, members of parliament
are being urged to grant apes the right to life, freedom and
protection from torture, reports BBC News magazine.

Ian Redmond of the U.N.'s Great Apes Survival Project contends apes
are special because they are so closely related to humans -
chimpanzees and bonobos, for example, differ by only 1 percent of
DNA.

Redmond argues the great apes have the human quality of self-awareness
and the ability to reason.

"Show a gibbon a mirror and the reaction suggests he or she thinks the
reflection is another gibbon," he said. "But all the great apes have
passed the 'mirror self-recognition' test and soon begin checking
their teeth or examining parts of their body they couldn't see without
the mirror. This self-awareness surely suggests that they know they
exist."

Zoologist Charlotte Uhlenbroek argues apes have a similar lifespan to
humans and form lifelong family bonds in which they display emotions
that could be described as love, anxiety, fear, jealousy and trauma.

"If I was an alien from Mars and looked at human society and a society
of apes then in terms of the emotional life I would see no distinct
difference, although we live very different lives because of language
and technology, "Uhlenbroek said.

Redmond asserts apes need protection, noting, for example, an
international trade ban is flouted in Africa and South-East Asia,
where mothers are shot and their infants shipped off as pets, circus
performers or lab animals.


The British woman who wants to adopt a chimpanzee, Paula Stibbe, says
the animal was abducted from its family tribe in West Africa 25 years
ago. It now lives in an animal sanctuary that is about to close, and
she wants to prevent it from being sold to a zoo by persuading a court
to grant the same protection as a child.

Civil rights, women's rights, gay rights, criminals' rights, and now
equal rights for monkeys. Where will this liberal insanity end?

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54959

Human rights for apes?

Growing movement wants to grant 'personhood'

An international movement is growing to grant human rights and
"personhood" to apes.

Civil rights, women's rights, gay rights, criminals' rights, and now
equal rights for monkeys. Where will this liberal insanity end?

Civil rights, women's rights, gay rights, criminals' rights, and now
equal rights for monkeys.

Civil rights, women's rights, gay rights, criminals' rights, and now
equal rights for monkeys. Where will this liberal insanity end?

Civil rights, women's rights, gay rights, criminals' rights, and now
equal rights for monkeys. Where will this liberal insanity end?

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54959