Orangutan gets personhood status

[Catherine]

Oddly I can't remember where I came across this piece of news. I think it was on the radio or maybe my cell phone sent a link, that is more likely. It really is a smart phone. It seems to know what I am interested in hearing about in the way of news. It sends me links all the time. If the news is important I can follow it up on the computer.

Here is a background article from Wikipedia about the rights for apes movement. It give a bit of background on the subject.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_ape_personhood

I don't think anyone is trying to get apes the right to vote or hold citizenship, but some basic personhood rights will protect them from being used in the lab and some of the other places they do not belong.

I don't know if anyone knows where this is going to end up, but we do need to do something to protect the great apes.