Socialists: Give apes human rights
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>Spain Herald
>The Spanish Socialist Party will introduce a bill in the Congress
>of Deputies calling for "the immediate inclusion of (simians) in
>the category of persons, and that they be given the moral and legal
>protection that currently are only enjoyed by human beings." The
>PSOE's justification is that humans share 98.4% of our genes with
>chimpanzees, 97.7% with gorillas, and 96.4% with orangutans.
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>The party will announce its Great Ape Project at a press conference
>tomorrow. An organization with the same name is seeking a UN
>declaration on simian rights which would defend ape interests "the
>same as those of minors and the mentally handicapped of our species."
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>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."
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