Tag: personhood
Pushing Elephant “Personhood”
Think cattle herds suing ranchers or lab animals suing universities — not to improve care but to liberate from all human use.
Smith: Personhood for Animals? What About Plants?
Bioethicist Wesley Smith examines the meaning of the term “personhood” and its implications for human rights.
Lawsuit to Declare Elephant a “Person”
“Animal standing” is really a Trojan horse to allow animal rights extremists to seek court rulings enforcing their own ideology.
Chimpanzee Liberation? Why Animal Rights and Human Rights Cannot Coexist
A “manifesto” in the science journal Human Evolution declares that chimpanzees and bonobos should be considered legal “persons” with legally enforceable “rights.”
Totalitarian Science: Past, Present, and Future?
When science is considered the only route to knowledge, scientific experts are given the right to rule, and science becomes totalitarian.