But can you abort apes?

New rights for apes in Spain . . .

The Spanish Parliament’s move to grant rights previously reserved for human beings to chimpanzees and other apes is a victory for those seeking to minimize the uniqueness of humanity, a bioethics specialist says.

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The Great Apes Project (GAP) is the brainchild of philosophers Peter Singer, a controversial ethics professor at Princeton University, and Paola Cavalieri, who founded it in 1993, Reuters reported.

Peter Singer is wildly pro-abortion. He, like other pro-legalized abortionists, realizes the folly of trying to say that the unborn aren’t human (those pesky 4-D ultrasounds and embryology textbooks teaching that life begins at conception get in the way of that), but they use philosphical “personhood” arguments to support their worldview. They claim that if humans don’t have self-awareness or some such things that they are fair game for abortion.

The personhood argument is demonstrably false, but there is one oddly positive element to it.  Singer and some others take the personhood argument to its logical conclusion and use it to support infanticide as well, such as the right to kill disabled babies.  A recent commenter on this blog insisted that parents should be able to destory infants up to about 18 months.  Most pro-aborts (other than Barack Obama) usually draw the line at birth, but that isn’t consistent with their personhood rationale.

So, these questions arise: Where do unborn humans and apes and born humans and apes allegedly without consciousness fit in the chain? Can you have ape abortions? Can you have ape infanticide?  Is a 2 yr. old ape worthy of more protection than a 1 yr. old human?

Here’s a terrific perspective from Life Under the Blue Sky:

You know, there is a great irony in all this. Here’s what I think. I don’t recall reading anywhere, in the vast annals of scientific literature, that the Great Ape ’societies’ and ‘cultures’ have developed medical facilities where female apes can go to get clean, sometimes free, discreet, safe abortions on demand, up to and including partial-birth abortions as late as 5 months into the pregnancy. I have read nowhere in any of these books about the Great Apes debating before a supreme court over whether or not it should be legal to kill another ape just because it is unborn. I haven’t read anywhere, in any scientific journal, that the great apes had developed a systematic, legal, mechanized manner by which they might efficiently and effectively destroy the lives of other apes just because they were unborn. And yet the same humans who have developed and done such things are now going to extend the courtesy of the ‘right to life’ to apes?!? Forgive me if I don’t put too much stock in the survival of the great apes.