Human Rights and the Unborn ChildThis challenging volume gathers a selection of the mass of material available from the major human rights instruments, from first drafts, legislative histories, and contemporary commentaries, from more recent scholarship as well as from the General Comments and Concluding Observations and Recommendations of the various treaty monitoring bodies relating to the topic of the unborn child. Contemporary reinterpretations of these documents are held up to the searchlight of historical context, including a reminder of the original purpose and meaning and the philosophical foundation of modern international human rights law. |
Contents
Analysis of the texts | 1 |
the Historical Context | 7 |
Chapter 3 Fundamentals of the Universal declarations Human Rights Protection | 31 |
Chapter 4 The inaugural Human Rightto be born Free and equal 47 Rights of the child exist before birth | 47 |
Chapter 5 What is Appropriate legal Protection before As Well As After birth? | 63 |
Chapter 6 The Right to life and to the necessities of life | 81 |
Chapter 7 DecriminalizationA treaty interpretation Manifestly Unreasonable | 103 |
Chapter 8 CRC legislative History and the Child before birth | 121 |
Chapter 10 European Convention 1950 and the Unborn Child | 179 |
in general from the moment of conception | 213 |
Chapter 12 Reclaiming Rights of the African Child at Risk of Abortion | 245 |
An Act of Violence and discrimination on Grounds of sex | 265 |
Chapter 14 Childrens Rights without any exceptions whatsoever | 283 |
Conclusion Ideologies Must Conform to Human Rightsnot Human Rights to ideologies | 301 |
bibliography | 331 |
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