Colorado Libs in Boulder County Want to Give Legal Rights to Plants and Animals

25 May, 2014 by Cassy Fiano

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Liberals fight tooth and nail against fetal homicide laws, such as Laci and Conner’s Law, because holding people responsible for acts that cause the death of an unborn child are a little too close to acknowledging that an unborn child is actually a human being. But legal rights for plants and animals? Sign them up!

Environmental activists and wildlife preservation advocates are a step closer to getting a “rights of nature” concept written into the Boulder County Comprehensive Plan.

Boulder County Planning Commission members agreed Wednesday night on a thus-far-unofficial comprehensive plan addition declaring county government’s responsibility to support the continued existence of all of the county’s “naturally occurring ecosystems and their native species populations.”

That statement, based on a proposal submitted by the Audubon Society of Boulder County, might not go far enough to satisfy some of the people who have been pushing for more than a year to have Boulder County declare that plants and animals have certain legal rights.

… It may still go too far, though, for some foes of the “rights of nature” movement, including people who warn that writing such a policy into an official government document would give plants and wildlife the same legal standing as human beings.

Hey, maybe someone that mows grass, or chops up some vegetables for a salad, could be charged with murder! Meanwhile, women can keep killing their unborn children without libs batting an eye. It’s like a liberal dream.

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