Abortion advocates are on a mission to establish an “international” right to abortion using “soft norms” under customary international law. Their ultimate goal is to weave throughout the various sources of customary international law, language implying an international consensus that abortion is a necessary component of fundamental health that must be provided by States to…
System: European Issue(s): Marriage and Family Download as a PDF See also http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/05/14848/ The European Convention on Human Rights does not require European nations to redefine marriage to include same-sex relationships. However, the European Court of Human Rights may rule in the future that member states must recognize same-sex civil unions. Debate over same-sex marriage…
Con l’abrogazione del divieto di fecondazione eterologa ad opera del giudice delle leggi (C. cost., 10.6.2014, n. 162) l’interesse della persona ad avere per genitori coloro che sono tali biologicamente è ormai destinato a soccombere rispetto al diritto a essere genitori dei componenti di una coppia sterile. Ciò però soltanto laddove si tratti di «coppie…
Mark H. Bonner and Jennifer A. Sheriff, A Child Needs a Champion: Guardian Ad Litem Representation for Prenatal Children, 19 Wm. & Mary J. Women & L. 511 (2013), http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmjowl/vol19/iss3/3 ABSTRACT Prenatal children, a/k/a unborn children, are easy to victimize and hard to protect. U.S. laws provide some protection for them, but are weak when…
http://www.comece.eu/site/en/ourwork/pressreleases/2015/article/8633.html Gestational surrogacy is an issue of increasing preoccupation and concern in contemporary political and legal debate across the European Union. Against that background, the COMECE Working Group on Ethics in Research and Medicine has published an “Opinion on Gestational Surrogacy: the question of European and International Rules” , which is presented today, 23 February,…
