Are Chimps More Equal Than Babies?

They won't allow fetal rights debate, but they don't mind holding a hearing on whether human rights should be extended to... chimpanzees.

The European Court of Human Rights has agreed to a preliminary hearing to determine whether chimpanzees are entitled to the legal status and protections granted to human beings.
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At the center of the case is Hiasl, a 26-year old chimpanzee now called Matthew by his keeper, Briton Paula Stibbe. Matthew currently shares a shelter with another chimpanzee named Rosi in the town of Voesendorf, outside of Austria. Their upkeep runs nearly $8,000 a month and the shelter recently filed for bankruptcy.

Donors have stepped in to offer assistance, but Stibbe says only official status as a human can permanently prevent Matthew from being transferred out of Austria. That status would force the state to appoint a guardian to look after his status, and presumably also entitle him to government assistance for upkeep.

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Government assistance? Sure! As if there aren't enough special interest groups draining the public purse - especially in the EUSSR. What else? Official status "as a human" can prevent the chimp from being transferred out of the country? That sounds like citizenship rights awarded to an animal...

Next step would probably be voting rights - how else would all those "progressive" politicians replenish their aging and childless electorate? And marriage rights - why not? If secular fundamentalists view human beings as nothing but evolved apes - what would stop them from willing to cohabit with an ape that hasn't yet evolved?

This whole story shows once again how morally bankrupt this crowd which calls itself "socially progressive" really is. They may be still powerful, but they have no future. Their days are numbered - it's a mathematical certainty.