Personal bodily rights, abortion, and unplugging the violinist.

Unplugged: Exploring the costs and benefits of constant connection

Computer-mediated-communication (CMC) is a ubiquitous part of people’s lives, yet little research has investigated attitudes about unplugging, also known as media refusal. In this large-scale lifespan study we surveyed 446 participants ages 14e79 about their feelings and attitudes toward unplugging from CMC for 24 h. We also probed their actual recent experiences of unplugging. We were particul...

Abortions and distortions: an analysis of morally irrelevant factors in Thomson's violinist thought experiment.

Evolution of the European Court of Human Rights encountering with challenges of the right to life: A Case Study of Fundamental Abortion and Mortality Votes

The right to life is one of the fundamental human rights that has been recognized and guaranteed in all religious texts and in many international documents, including the European Convention on Human Rights. Nevertheless, at the same time as the ease of meaning, its conceptual difficulty has been challenged by various lawyers. This Include the death penalty, suicide, Otanazi, abortion as the mo...

MOTHERS ' DREAMS : ABORTION AND THE HIGH PRICE OF MOTHERHOOD Joan

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, pro-choice and anti-abortion activists battled over the sacred ground of motherhood. Signs wielded by protestors outside clinics often read, "Choose life-your mother did," while bumper-stickers on the pro-choice side struggled to fight fire with fire with the slogan, "Pro-Child, Pro-Family, Pro-Choice." Yet, in recent years, the mother-oriented pro-choice slog...

Body and Soul: Equality, Pregnancy, and the Unitary Right to Abortion

This Article explores equality-based arguments for abortion rights, revealing both their necessity and their pitfalls. It first uses the narrowness of the “health exception” to abortion regulations to demonstrate why equality arguments are needed—namely because our legal tradition’s conception of liberty is based on male experience, no theory of basic human rights grounded in women’s reproducti...