Human rights and the unborn child

Main Author: Joseph, Rita.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10349097
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300 |a xviii, 347 p. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-338) and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
650 0 |a Unborn children (Law) 
650 0 |a Right to life. 
650 0 |a Abortion  |x Law and legislation. 
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