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Can There Be Justice for Pregnant Women if the Unborn Have 'Human Rights?'
November 4, 2008 |
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This summer, the question of abortion and the rights of the unborn once again took center stage as a presidential campaign issue. In August, at the Saddleback Civil Forum, Pastor Rick Warren asked both presidential candidates: "At what point is a baby entitled to human rights?" Senator John McCain's answer, "at the moment of conception," immediately established his anti-abortion bona fides.
But the right answer, as a matter of international human rights principles and simple justice, is: human rights attach at birth, not at conception.
This is the only position that ensures that upon becoming pregnant, women do not lose their human rights.
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