Don't be so quick to assume that the law would protect any of us. If there is a large enough genetic variance between our kind and the humans, I would not at all be surprised to see a cry that we are not to be afforded the rights of humans. All it takes is the blind fools in office to sign off on a bill stating that we are less than humans to find us herded off to camps and laboratories.
I still remember the Wars. And I have no desire to be on the other side of the concertina wire.