Tag: courts

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 7, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Council of Paris, courts, flowing, French Parliament, Is a River Alive?, law, Louvre, natural world, nature, nature rights, nature rights movement, Notre Dame Cathedral, Olympics, personhood, pollution, rights, Robert Macfarlane, Seine, water}

A “Right to Flow”: River Rights for the Seine?

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 7, 2025

Bioethics, Environment & Climate, Life Sciences

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Even nonessential activities could be blocked by pretending that the Seine is a person. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 18, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biology, boys, California, children, Colorado, courts, dead name, discrimination, female sports, feminists, gender, girls, hormones, ideology, law, Maine, men, parental custody, puberty blockers, Scotland, Supreme Court (UK), United Kingdom, United States, women}

From the UK, Good News for Biology

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 18, 2025

Bioethics, Biology, Intelligent Design

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Here’s hoping that in the U.S., women and girls can again be secure in female-only spaces. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 2, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animal rights, animal standing, conservation, courts, indigenous wisdom, legal standing, London, nature rights, rights, shipping, whales, windmills}

Now It’s “Whale Rights”

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 2, 2024

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

As often is the case in nature rights activism, “indigenous wisdom” is invoked as somehow superior to modern conservation. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 8, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Alabama Supreme Court, American history, children, courts, deaths, defendants, embryos, IVF, law, legislators, parents, Steven Novella, Yale University}

Are IVF Human Embryos “Children”?

_{Michael Egnor
March 8, 2024

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

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Recently, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that human embryos accidentally killed in an IVF clinic mishap are considered children under Alabama law. Read More ›

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Date
July 16, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Tagged
, activists, animal rights, animal welfare, courts, elephants, environmentalism, Florida, glaciers, human thriving, humans, Lake Erie, lakes, lawsuit, nature rights, New York Court of Appeals, Ohio, Orange County, rivers}

Local “Water Rights” Law Invalidated in Florida

_{Science and Culture
July 16, 2022

Bioethics, Life Sciences

2}

“Nature rights” and “animal rights” activists will keep trying. And there is no denying they are making incremental inroads. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 25, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, activists, assisted suicide, common law, Constitution, courts, Dobbs v. Jackson, Due Process Clause, euthanasia, Fourteenth Amendment, history, hubris, law, Supreme Court, Washington v. Glucksberg}

How Euthanasia Activists Laid the Groundwork for Overturning Roe

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 25, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

Back in the ’90s, the assisted-suicide movement tried to convince the Supreme Court to impose a Roe–style decision for their cause. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 21, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animal rights, animal welfare, Blake Lemoine, Bronx Zoo, chatbot, courts, Google, Happy (elephant), human rights, humans, LaMDA, New York State, Non-Computable You, personhood, PETA, Robert J. Marks II, Wesley J. Smith, Wired, Yuval Noah Harari}

Engineer: Failing to See His AI Program as a Person Is “Bigotry”

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 21, 2022

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Earlier this month, just in time for the release of Robert J. Marks’s book Non-Computable You, the story broke. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 4, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Science Reporting
Tagged
, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Chile, climate change, courts, damages, Ecuador, glaciers, greenmail, guardians, India, laws, Mother Nature, nature, nature rights, Panama, prosperity, rivers, United States}

India High Court: Nature Is a “Living Being” with “Rights”

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 4, 2022

Bioethics, Science Reporting

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Nature-rights laws generally allow anyone who believes that nature’s “rights” are being violated to sue to prevent the violation and to seek redress. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 14, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, animal rights, animals, bacteria, Congress, courts, deer, ecosystems, Ecuador, elephant, fish, forests, geological features, habeas corpus, insects, laws, New York State, rivers, Switzerland, viruses, water}

Ecuador’s Highest Court Grants Rights to Wild Animals

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 14, 2022

Bioethics, Botany, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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Nature rights apply to individual animals. And, one would assume, to be consistent, to individual plants, insects, water, and (what the hell) germs too. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 13, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Science Reporting
Tagged
, António Guterres, courts, development, Disney World, Elizabeth Kolbert, environmentalists, Florida, human rights, humankind, journalists, lakes, law, nature rights, Orange County, Orlando, radicals, The New Yorker, United Nations}

Nature Rights: A Lake in Florida Sues

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 13, 2022

Bioethics, Science Reporting

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For a certain class of journalists, practical concerns are of little consequence — or perhaps, just not as much fun to write about. Read More ›