BACKGROUNDER No. 3464 | JANUARY 24, 2020 RICHARD AND HELEN DEVOS CENTER FOR RELIGION & CIVIL SOCIETY This paper, in its entirety, can be found at http://report.heritage.org/bg3464 The Heritage Foundation | 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE | Washington, DC 20002 | (202) 546-4400 | heritage.org Nothing written here is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of The Heritage Foundation or as an attempt to aid or hinder the passage of any bill before Congress. The Right to Life in International Human Rights Law Tom Finegan, PhD U.N. bodies should demonstrate greater respect for the internationally recognized right to life consistent with the natural law basis of human rights. KEY TAKEAWAYS U.N. Member-States should high- light instances in which U.N. bodies are acting ultra vires by attempting to unilaterally amend binding international human rights law. U.N. Member-States must push back against the abuse of prestige by rogue treaty-monitoring bodies, which advance abortion and undermine the credibility of human rights. Introduction No one committed to human rights denies what Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1 (UDHR) asserts: “Everyone has a right to life.” Rather, what is disputed today is the question of who is included under the term “everyone.” More than any other right, then, debates over the right to life impli- cate the basic scope of human rights protections, or, in the language of contemporary moral philosophy, the fundamental moral status of humanity and its individual members. Core to these debates are three moral–legal catego- ries: (1) the inherent dignity of members of the human family (referenced by the first and fifth preambular paragraphs of the UDHR, as well as by Articles 1 and 23 2 ); (2) equal rights consequent on the equal dignity of human beings (also referenced by the first and fifth
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