Monkey Business On Court Docket
Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Life News — I have been warning for several years about how all it will only take is one judge to break the species barriers. That judge was found by animal rights fanatics at the NonHuman Rights Project granting a writ of habeas corpus to two chimpanzees.From the NhRP Announcement:
For the first time in history a judge has granted an order to show cause and writ of habeas corpus on behalf of a nonhuman animal. This afternoon, in a case brought by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP), Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Barbara Jaffe issued an order to show cause and writ of habeas corpus on behalf of two chimpanzees, Hercules and Leo, who are being used for biomedical experimentation at Stony Brook University on Long Island, New York.The Court of Appeals had better stomp this back in its toxic bottle fast or it will be Katy bar the door!
Under the law of New York State, only a “legal person” may have an order to show cause and writ of habeas corpus issued in his or her behalf. The Court has therefore implicitly determined that Hercules and Leo are “persons.
LifeNews.com Note: Wesley J. Smith, J.D., is a special consultant to the Center for Bioethics and Culture and a bioethics attorney who blogs at Human Exeptionalism
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