The teachings of John Paul II and the paradoxes of the right to life in the International Human Rights discourse
The right to life has a unique and outstanding importance in the International Human Rights Law. However, at the same time, this right suffers from new threats and contradictions. In this paper, I will address these paradoxes, concerning the moment, in which the legal protection of the human being...
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Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University Press
2023-12-01
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| Series: | Chrześcijaństwo-Świat-Polityka |
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| Online Access: | https://czasopisma.uksw.edu.pl/index.php/csp/article/view/13812 |
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| Summary: | The right to life has a unique and outstanding importance in the International Human Rights Law. However, at the same time, this right suffers from new threats and contradictions. In this paper, I will address these paradoxes, concerning the moment, in which the legal protection of the human being begins; the tendency to accommodate the beginning of life to biotechnological interests; the manipulation of language, as well as the relativization of the right to life and the pretensions of justifying abortion and euthanasia as a requirement of the right to life. I will offer an assessment of these paradoxes in the light of the Magisterium of John Paul II, and I will end with four signs of hope and commitment at the beginning of the 21st century in relation to the protection of the right to life.
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| ISSN: | 1896-9038 2719-8405 |