Natural Law and Human Right—The Casus of Contraception (Comments from the Level of Law)
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https://doi.org/10.31261/PaCL.2020.06.02Keywords:
natural law, human rights, Humanae Vitae, UNFPA by choice, not by chance, right to contraceptionAbstract
The author of the study deliberates whether the right to contraception can be described as a human right. He makes his speculations on the basis of a broader context of reflections concerning the relationship of human rights with the natural law, to which the former ones refer. The point of reference is recognizing the right as a good which co-creates a man. Contraception is not such a good since it is not an ontological value, that is, the one which does not entail anti-values.
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