Archive for July 29th, 2008
Press Release: AUL Files Brief in Missouri Choose Life License Plate Case
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008Chicago, Illinois - Americans United for Life (AUL) has filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of nine Missouri not-for-profit pregnancy resource centers in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in the case Kevin M. Roach, et al. v. Omar Davis, et al.
AUL argues that the decision of the Western [...]
Endangered Human Exceptionalism: Granting Animals “Human” Rights?
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008Spain’s parliament recently passed a nonbinding resolution granting apes legal rights. The New York Times discussed the trend toward granting animals human-like rights at length here and here.
According to columnist Adam Cohen, “[s]trip away the goofier rhetoric of the ape-rights activists, and their claim is straightforward. Great apes are biologically very close to humans; [...]
