New York court issues habeas corpus writ for chimpanzees
A judge in New York has issued a writ of habeas corpus in a case brought by animal rights activists on behalf of two chimpanzees.
The order means the university holding the chimpanzees will have to respond to the activists' petition in court.
The activists said the court had "implicitly determined" that the two chimpanzees are legal "persons".
But unborn babies in the last trimester are not persons, according to American jurisprudence.
Peter Singer is beaming with pleasure, now.
The sexual revolution in the law of the last 60 years or so has put the state out of the business of enforcing Christian morals and metaphysics.
And it has put the state into the business of enforcing the morals and metaphysics of liberal, secular philosophers.
Much as it has put the public schools out of the business, to the extent they were ever in it, of teaching Christian morals, metaphysics, and natural history and into the business of teaching the morals, metaphysics, and natural history of liberal secularists.
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