If life on Mars is ever discovered, liberals and enviro-whackos will immediately declared that life-form an endangered species and declare Mars untouchable.
There is already a proposal to do just that.
Environmentalists in Europe want to divide Mars into green "zones" or "Parks", so they can be set aside (similiar to what we have done with the park lands here),to protect them from future 'development'.
I read the article yesterday.
I'm not sure if it was on here or some other website.
But then the abortionists and euthanasia proponents would jump on this like DemocRATs on a recount.