Spanish Parliment to Give Great Apes Rights

By Duane Lester • Jun 26th, 2008 • 170 Views

There is a reason why I fear the Supreme Court looking outside our borders for legal precident. This is as good as any:

Parliament’s environmental committee approved resolutions urging Spain to comply with the Great Apes Project, devised by scientists and philosophers who say our closest genetic relatives deserve rights hitherto limited to humans.

“This is a historic day in the struggle for animal rights and in defense of our evolutionary comrades, which will doubtless go down in the history of humanity,” said Pedro Pozas, Spanish director of the Great Apes Project.

Spain may be better known abroad for bull-fighting than animal rights but the new measures are the latest move turning once-conservative Spain into a liberal trailblazer.

Spain did not legalize divorce until the 1980s, but Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero’s Socialist government has legalized gay marriage, reduced the influence of the Catholic Church in education and set up an Equality Ministry.
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