Should animals have personhood rights?

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

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🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

For years, legal activists fought to free their client ... an elephant. Earlier this year, the state's highest court rejected that argument. But the question's now out there: If corporations can have some personhood rights, why not animals, too? David Scheel and Richard Cupp join Meghna Chakrabarti.

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0:18.9	This is on point.
0:26.2	I'm Magna Chakrabardi.
0:28.0	Today, we're going to talk about a legal argument that so far has failed.
0:35.2	The client in this case is just over 50 years old.
0:38.8	She's been in a New York institution for 45 of those 50 years.
0:43.9	For the past 20 years, she's been physically
0:46.2	separated from other residents in the institution,
0:49.4	but she can communicate with them.
0:52.0	She will likely never leave the facility, even though there
0:55.8	is nothing wrong with her physically or cognitively.
1:00.1	She will live out her days there, whether she wants to or not.
1:06.0	And because of that, her attorneys claim
1:08.3	that she is being imprisoned against her will.
1:12.0	Since 2018, they've argued in New York
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