Still, you might guess that Ryan's model would be Lamborn, since Lamborn co-sponsored the same federal personhood "Sanctity of Human Life" bill that Ryan did.
Second, if, as this response presupposes, the lack of personhood-relevant properties of a non-human reduces its moral status only if the same lack of personhood-relevant properties would reduce to the same degree the moral status of a human, then the range of non-humans with full or near-full moral status is much larger than DeGrazia seems willing to concede.
Surely this must be right, for it would be extraordinarily hard to argue plausibly that it is impossible, in all contexts, to use Wackenheim as a projectile whilst at the same time respecting his personhood.
The many memoirs of addiction, senile dementia and insanity run the same risk: extreme pathology devalues personhood, devours the individual.
And in 2007, the autonomous Balearic Islands of Spain guaranteed apes personhood, although the same year an Austrian judge denied a British woman the right to adopt Hiasl the chimp like a human child to protect his interests after his zoo home closed.
Scripture clarifies that Jesus and the Father have distinct personhoods, but the same nature or essence.
Corporate personhood gives corporations the same constitutional rights as human beings under the 14th Amendment, which means they are entitled to due process, equal protection, and free speech.
This decision is only the latest in a long line of judicial rulings that have invented the legal doctrine of corporate personhood, affording corporations the same constitutional rights as people.
Henceforth those challengers will lead with this Court's declaration that there is "no legitimate purpose" served by such a law, and will claim that the traditional definition has "the purpose and effect to disparage and to injure" the "personhood and dignity" of same-sex couples.
Unfortunately, we have not made the same effort to "decode" dolphin dignity and personhood.
