New York Court May Grant “Personhood” to Tommy the Chimpanzee

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By Ken Ham

A chimpanzee at the Los Angeles Zoo. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lightmatter_chimp.jpg

Human rights may no longer be just for humans. A group called the Nonhuman Rights Project is currently involved in a legal battle to get a 26-year-old chimpanzee named Tommy recognized as a legal person deserving of certain legal rights, such as “bodily liberty and bodily integrity.” The group claims that Tommy “is being unlawfully imprisoned and therefore being deprived of his fundamental common law right to bodily liberty.” Of course, this chimp only has a right to bodily liberty if it …read more

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