Nonhuman Rights Project

(Rancho Santa Fe, California) According to Natalie Prosin, the executive director of the Nonhuman Rights Project:

“Our mission is to change the common law status of at least some nonhuman animals from mere ‘things,’ which lack the capacity to possess any legal right, to ‘persons,’ who possess such fundamental rights as bodily integrity and bodily liberty,” Prosin said.

Starting next year, the Nonhuman Rights Project group will file lawsuits in state courts to attempt to give personhood status for cognitively complex animals such as great apes, dolphins, whales, elephants and African Grey parrots.

Frankly, I haven't been able to find the rights of "bodily integrity and bodily liberty" in the U.S. Constitution. Maybe a scholar can enlighten me.

In any event, I suggest that the same "progressive" crowd of people who want to grant legal rights to animals are at the forefront in denying any rights to humans in the womb.