Protection of Human Life in Its Early Stage : Intellectual Foundations and Legal Means.
Title:
Protection of Human Life in Its Early Stage : Intellectual Foundations and Legal Means.
Author:
Stepkowski, Aleksander.
ISBN:
9783653037289
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (266 pages)
Series:
Ad Fontes ; v.10
Ad Fontes
Contents:
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Protection of Human Life Against a Background of Contemporary Legal Culture -- Part I General Perspective -- The Legal Anthropology of Human Rights: A Canvass of Approaches to Explain the Same Reality: Jane Adolphe -- Sovereignties: Evaluating Claims for a 'Right to Abortion' under International Law: Piero A. Tozzi -- Eugenics as a Human Right: José Miguel Serrano Ruiz-Calderón -- The Crisis of Reason in Western Jurisprudence and the Weakening of Life Protection: Nikolas T. Nikas -- The Necessity for a Holistic Approach to Protecting Human Life: Aleksander Stępkowski -- Part II National Perspectives -- Judicial Interference in the Protection of Human Life - A Perspective from the United States: William L. Saunders -- German Constitutional Law and the Protection of Human Life in the Prenatal Phase: Christian Hillgruber -- The Child as Damage in the Light of Austrian Law: Thomas J. Piskernigg -- Polish Penal Law on the Human Being in the Prenatal Stage: Małgorzata Gałązka -- An Essay About the Values Justifying Eugenic Abortion as Confronted with the Constitution and the Real World: Olgierd Pankiewicz -- Part III International Perspective -- To Be or Not To Be... a Parent? Abortion and the Right to Life within a European Legal Context: Dobrochna Bach-Golecka -- Abortion and the European Convention on Human Rights: Grégor Puppinck -- The Diffusion of Sexual and Reproductive Rights through the UN Human Rights Framework: Stefano Gennarini.
Abstract:
The book consists of thirteen studies examining different aspects of human life protection in the early stage of its development. The contributions are arranged in three parts. Part I focuses on theoretical problems and examines the main issues of contemporary jurisprudence. The foundation of human rights, different approaches to sovereignty, the relation between law and science, the legitimacy of judicial power, and the nature of legal authority are discussed. Part II presents the issues within the national contexts of the USA, Germany, Austria and Poland. In a wider perspective, Part III examines the issue of the protection of human life in the prenatal phase on three different levels: within the EU, within the European Court of Human Rights case law and the UN system.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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