Only if you take the position that a “droid” is a iving being. And of course a liberal would value a droid’s rights as an “individual” over their fellow man’s who is supposed to be a part of the collective.
Soap abuser!
A droid may be “sentient” in the sense that it recognizes Self, but since it was created by Man, it has no soul. One could not, therefore, “murder” a droid in the legal sense, nor do droids have the innate, inalienable rights with which humans are endowed at birth.
They are machines. Very sophisticated machines, to be sure, but machines nonetheless. You can no more enslave one than you can enslave your toaster.
So what if a Droid is a living being?
If we are their creator, then they have only the rights we assign to them.
Now if we merely copied or modified the Creator’s design, then a case can be made that they have innate rights from the Creator. But if it’s totally our design from the start, they exist at our pleasure.