Human rights and the unborn child / by Rita Joseph.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joseph, Rita.

Series:

Nijhoff eBook titles 2009

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Unborn children (Law).

Right to life.

Abortion--Law and legislation.

Abortion.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This 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:

UDHR recognition of the child before birth : analysis of the texts

UDHR recognition of the child before birth : the historical context

Fundamentals of the universal declaration's human rights protection

The inaugural human right : to be born free and equal

What is "appropriate" legal protection before as well as after birth?

The right to life and to the necessities of life

Decriminalization : a treaty interpretation manifestly unreasonable

CRC legislative history and the child before birth

Selective abortion on grounds of disability

European Convention (1950) and the unborn child

American Convention on Human Rights : " ... in general, from the moment of conception"

Reclaiming rights of the African child at risk of abortion

Selective abortion : an act of violence and discrimination on grounds of sex

Children's rights : " ... without any exceptions whatsoever"

Ideologies must conform to human rights, not human rights to ideologies.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-338) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-40120-3

9786612401206

90-474-2904-4

OCLC:

570375516

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004175600.i-350 DOI