Monkey Business
April 28th, 2006 by Wyatt
Careful who you equate yourself with, people may not be able to tell the difference. This article sounds like a joke, but it’s not. The summary:
According to the Project, “Today only members of the species Homo sapiens are considered part of the community of equals. The chimpanzee, the gorilla, and the orangutan are our species’s closest relatives. They possess sufficient mental faculties and emotional life to justify their inclusion in the community of equals.”
Notice that the group argues that because our DNA is so similar, we should treat these animals as equals. How does that argument apply to a fetus? Doesn’t it have DNA exactly the same as a human? Shouldn’t we give a fetus human rights, too?
Oh, wait, that doesn’t fit the way they want the world to be.