Human rights and the unborn child /
Joseph, Rita
Human rights and the unborn child / by Rita Joseph. - Leiden: Boston Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009. - xviii, 347 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-338) and index.
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.
9789004175 9004175601
Abortion--Law and legislation
Human rights
Right to life
Unborn children (Law)
341.48572
Human rights and the unborn child / by Rita Joseph. - Leiden: Boston Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009. - xviii, 347 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-338) and index.
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.
9789004175 9004175601
Abortion--Law and legislation
Human rights
Right to life
Unborn children (Law)
341.48572