The human right to liberty and Brazilian abortion practices

Abstract The aim of this paper is to justify women’s right to abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy. Considering human rights as the protection of our normative agency or personhood, this paper will argue that human rights cannot be extended to human embryos and foetuses. In the first trimest...

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Main Author: Milene Consenso Tonetto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Conselho Federal de Medicina
Series:Revista Bioética
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1983-80422018000100058&lng=en&tlng=en