Posted on 11/08/2019 8:50:19 PM PST by simpson96
An orangutan who was granted legal personhood in a landmark 2015 ruling has moved into the Center for Great Apes in central Florida.
Judge Elena Liberatori's ruling declared that Sandra was legally not an animal, but a non-human person. That meant the orangutan was entitled to some legal rights enjoyed by humans, plus better living conditions, reports The Miami Herald.
"With that ruling I wanted to tell society something new, that animals are sentient beings and that the first right they have is our obligation to respect them," Liberatori said.
The 2015 ruling came after animal rights campaigners filed a habeas corpus petition—a document more typically used to challenge the legality of a person's detention or imprisonment—on behalf of the orangutan.
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It will be culture and law in America eventually, or sooner. Expressing a contrary opinion will get you tossed in a camp.
Right turn Claudia! I bet her hair looks better than Mad Maxine’s and it’s her own.
Those are outstanding!
OKAAAAAAAAAAAY
Then I expect this creature to do one of the following
1. Recite the Gettysburg Address
2. Play Portia from The Merchant of Venice
3. Sing at La Scala
Until then
Yeah, I think she went by the stage name of Mick Shrimpton, but I thought she died onstage in a bizarre case of spontaneous combustion...........
I doubt it. I suspect “she” is in fact a chimp-pansy
Would this judge would rule for the unborn human babies right to life?
Just askin’. Know the likely answer. Animal Protected. Human, sacrificed for organ sales.
Probably one or the smarter Democrat District Delegates in Florida...
There is certainly a Florida man or two liquored up and waiting for her..
LOL!
The [paperless] ape-gal filed banana peels today to enter herx name on the [nearby] Alabama ballot along with other Democratic presidential contenders in 2020, along with Michael Bloomfield, the nationally beloved former Mayor of New York City.
Could we have the critter run for AOC’s seat?
Dos the U.S. have to honor a goofy judicial ruling from Argentina ?
That’s hilarious!
and that’s not mentioned in the FIRST sentence?!?!
Thank you.
Nobody else here knows that’s i’m betting.
That’s good. It would have ruined the comments of those thinking it’s an american citizen :)
Would I be correct in assuming she became a democrat, since most Democrats are a bunch of apes anyway?
I may want to volunteer for Musk’s Mars expedition after all.
I want out of this asylum.
A non-human person?
I thought Hillary Clinton had that title???
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