Here is a link to John Keown’s review of Rita Joseph’s book “Human Rights and the Unborn Child.” http://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/247662/international-human-rights-law-and-unborn-child-john-keown Here is a link to the book. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9004175601/ref=nosim/nationalreviewon
As Professor Keown points out, advocates of abortion rights have been trying to develop a recognition of a right to abortion in international law. (See the article by Richard Wilkins and Jacob Reynolds on this effort. http://www.uffl.org/vol15/wilkins05.pdf) As the review states, “Joseph argues cogently and clearly that an unborn child’s right to life is far more plausibly grounded in …[international human rights law] than is the right to abortion.”
Richard M.