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The Child’s Life, Health and Development Rights

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This early document states the basic necessity in child law very clearly: “the child must be given the means requisite for its normal development”. This universal statement is intended to be applicable to every child, not only to those who are convenient, or not due to arrive at a time when then pregnant woman would prefer to avoid their survival. The starting point remains clear: there is neither scientific evidence nor any other research that produces a logical argument why a developing human infant should be deprived of the right to life and normal development, or why she should be deemed to be alive and possess rights only when outside a mother’s body and breathing on her own.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See http://naturalsociety.com/roundup-causes-birth-defects-scientist-say/June 28, 2011.

  2. 2.

    Ibid., p. 3.

  3. 3.

    Ibid.

  4. 4.

    See http://naturalsociety.com/roundup-causes-birth-defects-scientists-say/

  5. 5.

    Ibid.

  6. 6.

    See also http://www.env-health.org/resources/press-release/article/responses-to-european-commission-s.

  7. 7.

    Ibid.

  8. 8.

    Ibid., this document adds that, “The Review of REACH foreseen to be completed by 2012 presents an excellent opportunity for ensuring that the assessment of mixture toxicity is properly addressed in this key piece of legislation”.

  9. 9.

    www.nationofchange.org/monsanto-and-cargill-aggressively-pursue-ge-soy-feed-factory-fish-farming-industry-1341407426.

  10. 10.

    Ibid.

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Westra, L. (2014). The Child’s Life, Health and Development Rights. In: Child Law. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05071-3_2

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