Author : Jack Ketchum
Publisher : Gauntlet Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,3 MB
Release : 2002-04
Category : Short stories
ISBN : 9781887368568
One of the most sought-after collectibles from contemporary author Jack Ketcham, this book tells a gruesome, fact-based story of kidnapping, brutality, and revenge.
Author : Christian Tomuschat
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 39,61 MB
Release : 2010-03-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004189653
The right to life stands at the heart of human rights protection. Individuals cannot enjoy any of the rights guaranteed to them unless their physical existence is ensured. All human rights instrument list the right to life as the first one of their safeguards. Nonetheless, in many situations human life finds itself under structural threat. Although obligated by law to protect the right to life, State authorities time and again engage in deliberate acts of killing. Fortunately, international review bodies have devised many imaginative counter-strategies. Another one of those structural threats is global warming. Obviously, armed conflict puts human life inevitably at risk; the limits of the ‘license to kill’ given by the laws of war must be scrupulously observed.
Author : Prudence Flowers
Publisher : Palgrave Pivot
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,49 MB
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030017064
This book offers a political, ideological, and social history of the national right-to-life movement in the 1980s under President Ronald Reagan. It analyzes anti-abortion engagement with the legislative, judicial, and executive branches, and offers what is frequently a narrative of disappointment and factionalism. The chapters explore pro-life responses to Supreme Court vacancies, attempts to pass a constitutional amendment, and broader legislative and bureaucratic strategies, including successful campaigns against international and domestic family planning programs. The book suggests that the 1980s transformed the anti-abortion cause, limiting the types of ideas and approaches possible at a national level. Although the movement later claimed Reagan as a "pro-life hero," while he was President right-to-lifers continuously struggled with the gap between his words and deeds. They also had a fraught relationship with the broader Republican Party. This book charts the political education of right-to-lifers, offering insights into social movement activism and conservatism in the late twentieth century.
Author : Stuart Casey-Maslen
Publisher :
Page : 795 pages
File Size : 41,7 MB
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108494781
Offers the first-ever comprehensive treatment under international law of the foundational human right to life.
Author : Bertie G. Ramcharan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 16,97 MB
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004482296
Author : Hans-Georg Ziebertz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 42,91 MB
Release : 2018-11-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3319987739
This book considers how the termination of life might be accepted in the view of a general obligation to protect life. It features more than 10 papers written by scholars from 14 countries that offer international comparative empirical research. Inside, readers will find case studies from such areas as: India, Chile, Germany, Italy, England, Palestine, Lithuania, Nigeria, and Poland. The papers focus on three limitations of the right to life: the death penalty, abortion, and euthanasia. The contributors explore how young people understand and evaluate the right to life and its limitations. The book presents unique empirical research among today's youth and reveals that, among other concepts, religiosity matters. It provides insight into the acceptance, perception, and legitimation of human rights by people from different religious and cultural backgrounds. This investigation rigorously tests for inter-individual differences regarding political and judicial rights on religious grounds, while controlling for other characteristics. It will help readers better understand the many facets of this fundamental, yet controversial, philosophical question. The volume will be of interest to students, researchers, as well as general readers searching for answers.
Author : Dr Jon Yorke
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 16,65 MB
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1409497151
This groundbreaking book is the first collection to investigate the law, political science and ethical perspectives collectively in relation to the right and value of life. It presents a much-needed examination of key issues in a broad practical and theoretical context, and holds broad appeal for scholars, researchers, and students occupied with issues of war, armed conflict, the death penalty, and various contemporary medico-legal scenarios.
Author : Ronald Dworkin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,28 MB
Release : 2011-05-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 0307787915
Internationally renowned lawyer and philosopher Ronald Dworkin addresses the crucially related acts of abortion and euthanasia in a brilliantly original book that examines their meaning in a nation that prizes both life and individual liberty. From Roe v. Wade to the legal battle over the death of Nancy Cruzan, no issues have opened greater rifts in American society than those of abortion and euthanasia. At the heart of Life's Dominion is Dworkin's inquest into why abortion and euthanasia provoke such controversy. Do these acts violate some fundamental "right to life"? Or are the objections against them based on the belief that human life is sacred? Combining incisive moral reasoning and close readings of indicidual court decisions with a majestic interpretation of the U.S. Constitution itself, Dworkin gives us a work that is absolutely essential for anyone who cares about the legal status of human life.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 20,74 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Civil rights
ISBN :
Author : Francis J. Beckwith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 43,79 MB
Release : 2007-08-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139466429
Defending Life is arguably the most comprehensive defense of the pro-life position on abortion - morally, legally, and politically - that has ever been published in an academic monograph. It offers a detailed and critical analysis of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey as well as arguments by those who defend a Rawlsian case for abortion-choice, such as J. J. Thomson. The author defends the substance view of persons as the view with the most explanatory power. The substance view entails that the unborn is a subject of moral rights from conception. While defending this view, the author responds to the arguments of thinkers such as Boonin, Dworkin, Stretton, Ford and Brody. He also critiques Thomson's famous violinist argument and its revisions by Boonin and McDonagh. Defending Life includes chapters critiquing arguments found in popular politics and the controversy over cloning and stem cell research.
