NEW YORK—Happy the elephant will stay at the Bronx Zoo after New York state’s highest court on Tuesday ruled against an animal rights group that said she deserved some of the same rights as humans and should be freed. In a 5–2 decision, the Albany-based Court of Appeals said the writ of habeas corpus, which…
Woman Loses Fight for Frozen Embryos in Child Custody Lawsuit
A Family Court judge in Michigan late last month refused a mother’s request for custody of five to ten frozen embryos on ice at an in-vitro fertilization facility. The embryos were produced through in vitro, or outside the body, fertilization in 2015 and then frozen. The mother, Gloria Karungi, and her former boyfriend, Ronald Ejalu,…
‘Strictly UN Optics’: Quebec’s Magpie River Granted Personhood Status
A remote river in eastern Quebec has been granted personhood status, making it the first time in Canada that an entity of nature purportedly has the same legal rights as a human being. Bestowing legal personhood on the Magpie River, which spills into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, is being lauded by the groups involved, but…
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