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  2. The Case for Animal Rights - Wikipedia

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    The Case for Animal Rights is a 1983 book by the American philosopher Tom Regan, in which the author argues that at least some kinds of non-human animals have moral rights because they are the "subjects-of-a-life", and that these rights adhere to them whether or not they are recognized. [1]

  3. Women and animal advocacy - Wikipedia

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    Women have played a central role in animal advocacy since the 19th century. The animal advocacy movement – embracing animal rights, animal welfare, and anti-vivisectionism – has been disproportionately initiated and led by women, particularly in the United Kingdom. [1] Women are more likely to support animal rights than men.

  4. Animal rights - Wikipedia

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    When the British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Thomas Taylor (1758–1835), a Cambridge philosopher, responded with an anonymous parody, A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes (1792), saying that Wollstonecraft's arguments for women's rights could be applied equally to animals ...

  5. Argument from marginal cases - Wikipedia

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    The argument from marginal cases (also known as the argument from species overlap) [1] is a philosophical argument within animal rights theory regarding the moral status of non-human animals.

  6. Mary Anne Warren - Wikipedia

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    Warren was a professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University for many years. Her essays have sometimes been required readings in academic courses dealing with the abortion debate and they are frequently cited in major publications like Peter Singer's The Moral of the Story: An Anthology of Ethics Through Literature [2] and Bernard Gert's Bioethics: A Systematic Approach. [3]

  7. Cat lover campaigns for animal rights in Indonesia elections

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    Activists rallied in Jakarta this month to call for a national ban on dog and cat meat trades, according to the animal welfare group The Humane Society International.

  8. Timeline of animal welfare and rights - Wikipedia

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    Tom Regan published The Case for Animal Rights, a highly influential philosophical argument that animals had rights (as opposed to Peter Singer's utilitarian case for animal liberation). [ 60 ] 1986

  9. Eugene woman faces charges in animal neglect case involving ...

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    A 48-year-old Eugene woman was arrested Wednesday and arraigned in court Thursday on 46 counts of second-degree animal neglect more than a year after dozens of cats were found abandoned inside a ...