Is An Elephant Legally A Person?

 

Is an elephant legally a person?

Incredibly, that was the pertinent question in a case that New York’s highest court once considered in a dispute over the living quarters of “Happy,” an Asian elephant at the Bronx Zoo.

The “Nonhuman Rights Project,” an animal rights organization, argued that Happy is an autonomous and cognitively complex animal and is therefore entitled to the same right of protection against unlawful imprisonment that people possess. (Tell that to some of the Jan. 6 Capitol strollers.) Steven Wise, president of the oh-so-cleverly named Nonhuman Rights Project, said via interview: “What we’re saying is that she has a right to bodily liberty and that that makes her no longer a thing. She’s a person.” (Was Happy forced to take an experimental mRNA “vaccine” into her body?)

The zoo contends that the elephant is well cared for and that its possession of her is not illegal.

Is “Happy” happy?

The remarkable thing to me about this story is its juxtaposition with the abortion fanatics’ tantrums, protests, and threats vis-à-vis the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

I’m virtually certain most of the radically pro-abortion crowd would sympathize with the plight of Happy and the Nonhuman Rights Project. Just as I bet Wise (!) would say that a young human in the womb is not, in fact, a person, and ergo has no right to bodily liberty.

So, to many “progressives,” porpoises, whales, dogs, cats, pigs, horses, elephants, etc., are “persons”-- but pre-birth human babies are not.

This raises the question, “What the bleep?” I mean, “what the bleeping bleep?!!”

I wonder what “Wise”—and pro-abortionists-- would think about humans who demanded the right to abort animals purely for their convenience?

Let’s turn the opening question around: in today’s bizzarro world, is a person legally an elephant if they “identify” as one?

If our lawyers, judges, experts, and elites had decided that Happy the elephant is legally a “person,” but your son or daughter in your womb is not…that would be a clear sign of the end times. Not that we need another one.

Fortunately, the court ruled that Happy is not a person in the legal sense.

Next up? Robots and Artificial Intelligence.