Published: 2023-12-29

The teachings of John Paul II and the paradoxes of the right to life in the International Human Rights discourse

Jorge Nicolás Lafferriere
Christianity-World-Politics
Section: Articles
https://doi.org/10.21697/CSP.2023.27.1.05

Abstract

The right to life has a unique and outstanding importance in the International Human Rights Law. However, at the same time, this right suffers from new threats and contradictions. In this paper, I will address these paradoxes, concerning the moment, in which the legal protection of the human being begins; the tendency to accommodate the beginning of life to biotechnological interests; the manipulation of language, as well as the relativization of the right to life and the pretensions of justifying abortion and euthanasia as a requirement of the right to life. I will offer an assessment of these paradoxes in the light of the Magisterium of John Paul II, and I will end with four signs of hope and commitment at the beginning of the 21st century in relation to the protection of the right to life.

Keywords:

John Paul II, Right to Life, abortion, euthanasia

Citation rules

Lafferriere, J. N. (2023). The teachings of John Paul II and the paradoxes of the right to life in the International Human Rights discourse. Christianity-World-Politics, (27), 90–109. https://doi.org/10.21697/CSP.2023.27.1.05

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