- Title
- 'Fetal "rights"? The need for a unified approach to the fetus in the context of feticide'
- Creator
- Kruuse, Helen
- Date Issued
- 2009
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- Article
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/54163
- Identifier
- vital:26397
- Identifier
- https://store.lexisnexis.co.za/products/tydskrif-vir-hedendaagse-romeinshollandse-reg-journal-of-contemporary-romandutch-law-skuZASKU9780409079241/details
- Description
- The issues of fetal protection, fetal rights and the status of unborn life have been debated on a variety of levels in a variety of disciplines over the past centuries. One needs only think of John Milton who asked the “hard” question: “For man to tell how human life began / Is hard: for who himself beginning knew?” (Paradise lost (1667) Bk 8 251–252). While the issue of fetal rights most often arises in abortion debates, the issue of fetal rights in the context of feticide has received scant attention in South Africa. (For a thought-provoking general discussion of fetal rights, see Du Plessis “Jurisprudential reflections on the status of unborn life” 1990 TSAR 44; Van Niekerk (ed) The status of prenatal life (1991) and Kahn (ed) The sanctity of human life (1983).) This note seeks to initiate a discussion on the current legal position in South Africa in respect of feticide.
- Format
- 23 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Tydskrif vir Hedendaagse Romeins-Hollandse Reg / Journal of Contemporary Roman-Dutch Law
- Relation
- Kruuse, H. (2013) 'Fetal "rights"? The need for a unified approach to the fetus in the context of feticide'. Tydskrif vir Hedendaagse Romeins-Hollandse Reg / Journal of Contemporary Roman-Dutch Law, 72(1), pp. 126-148, https://store.lexisnexis.co.za/products/tydskrif-vir-hedendaagse-romeinshollandse-reg-journal-of-contemporary-romandutch-law-skuZASKU9780409079241/details
- Relation
- Tydskrif vir Hedendaagse Romeins-Hollandse Reg / Journal of Contemporary Roman-Dutch Law 72 vol. 72 1 no.1 126 148 2009 ISSN : 9780409079241
- Rights
- Tydskrif vir Hedendaagse Romeins-Hollandse Reg / Journal of Contemporary Roman-Dutch Law
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