PRI “Right to Life” Comment on the United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR

PRI “Right to Life” Comment on the United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) PRI “Right to Life” Comment on the United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) Jonathan Abbamonte / October 6, 2017 On October 6, 2017, the Population Research Institute submitted the following policy paper to the United Nations Human Rights Com. [...] The right to life is the first and most fundamental of all human rights, a right inherent to the human person and the “prerequisite for the enjoyment of all other human rights.” As the Committee has correctly stated, the right to life is “the supreme right from which no derogation is permitted even in time of public emergency” and a right which “cannot properly be understood in a restrictive manne. [...] This necessarily includes the right to life for the unborn child and the human person in all stages of development and at the end of life. [...] As such, (a) building upon the wide consensus of nations with respect to the right to life as agreed to by states that have adopted the ICCPR; (b) reiterating the obligations of states and international institutional bodies under the pop.org | PRI “Right to Life” Comment on the United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) | 1 . [...] Abortion is a grave threat to the fundamental right to life and any change in the Committee’s interpretation of ICCPR article 6 should take into account the scale of the loss of life of unborn children.