This essay discusses Zimbabwe's laws, policies and social stance in relation to sexual and reproductive rights and unpacks how they impact on human rights. ... Law as defined by the Oxford dictionary is the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties. The law in Zimbabwe has several precepts that touch on the subject in question and will be discussed below. The Constitution states that every person has a right to life, Section 48 reads: "An Act of Parliament must pr...

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Granbury School District, the parents of a 17-year-old high school student brought suit in U.S. ... The principal of the school was said to have labeled the girl's account of the incident as a "hallucination". ... The fact that the state law which related to minor's consent to abortion had been held unconstitutional could not be asserted also hampered the plaintiff in successfully asserting his claim. ... Board of Education of Escambia County, Alabama, 880 F2d 305 (11th Cir 1989), the parents of minor students in a public school brought civil rights claims against a school guidance c...

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She had suffered physical and emotional abuse as a child, spent some time in reform school, and was raped as a teen-ager. ... Wade case challenged the criminal abortion laws in the State of Texas and sought to have the Texas anti-abortion statute, first enacted in the 1850's declared unconstitutional. ... On March 3, 1970, a childless married couple, John and Mary Doe (these plaintiffs also adopted pseudonyms for purposes of anonymity) filed a complaint which separately attacked the laws, basing alleged injury on the future possibilities of contraceptive failure, pregnancy, unpreparedne...

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The issues surrounding abortion strike questions based on ethics, morals, emotions, and law. ... The amendment states that, "No person or state may deprive a person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of the law" (475 US Constitution). ... Although the law has set boundaries on when a fetus should be considered a citizen, there are people who believe that life starts before birth no matter what the law states. ...

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According to investigative legal writer, Karen Zivi, in her law review article, "Who Is the Guilty Party? ... The lack of laws protecting the unborn from forced drug and alcohol exposure is a disturbing trend that must be revised. ... Despite all of those cases, there have been no official laws created to protect unborn children from prenatal drug and alcohol exposure. ... An afflicted person's home, school, and work life are likely to suffer from the psychological disorders caused by the use of drugs or alcohol before he or she was even born. ... Ultimately, it is important that s...

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Whether it is television, radio, school, or even the Internet, teenagers are hearing the affects of sex on our society. ... Teenagers will most likely not want to go to school feeling like that. ... Every year, about 40,000 teenage girls drop out of high school because they are pregnant (Meier, 1994, p. 24). ... Now a high school graduate will qualify for only lowest paying jobs (Meier, 1994, p. 71). ... About 23 states have passed anti-PBA (partial birth abortions) laws as of August of 1998 (Robinson, 1999). ...

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For centuries prior to 1800 the key to the common law's attitude towards abortion had been a phenomenon associated with normal gestation as quickening. ... The common law did not formally recognize the existence of a fetus in criminal cases until it had quickened. ... The earliest laws that dealt specifically with the legal status of abortion in the U.S. were inserted into Americans criminal code books between 1821 and 1841. ... Every one of the laws passed between 1821 and 1841 punished only the "person" who administered the abortifacients or performed the operation; none punished the wo...

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For centuries prior to 1800 the key to the common law's attitude towards abortion had been a phenomenon associated with normal gestation as quickening. ... The common law did not formally recognize the existence of a fetus in criminal cases until it had quickened. ... The earliest laws that dealt specifically with the legal status of abortion in the U.S. were inserted into Americans criminal code books between 1821 and 1841. ... Every one of the laws passed between 1821 and 1841 punished only the "person" who administered the abortifacients or performed the operation; none punished the wo...

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The earliest laws that dealt specifically with the legal status of abortion in the U.S. were inserted into Americans criminal code books between 1821 and 1841. Ten states and one federal territory during that period enacted legislation that for the first time made certain kinds of abortions explicit statute offenses rather than leaving the common law to deal with them. ... Every one of the laws passed between 1821 and 1841 punished only the "person" who administered the abortifacients or performed the operation; none punished the woman herself in any way. The laws were aimed, in other words, a...

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It discusses human interaction where ethics, emotions and law come together. ... The law now permits abortion at the request of the women without any restrictions in the first trimester and some restrictions in the second trimester to protect the women's health. ... I wouldn't have made it to medical school. ... Kristina Kleg a graduate from high school had recently become pregnant and decided against abortion. ...

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This is in stark contrast to the idea that there must be some sort of natural law which governs all human beings. According to the theory of natural law, our laws are merely a reflection of this foggy, grander conceptual law which exists somewhere in the minds of all people. In our society, we make the best laws that we can in accordance with the general idea of morality most people have. ... We make a conscious decision to have sex with another individual, and I feel that most people in our culture, especially since the initiative to have sex education in schools, know that sex can result ...

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Infants don't have a decision on whether they should live or be aborted in their mother's womb. If a woman chooses to prematurely end her child, the child can't do anything about his or her life being taken away from them. Their entire future is annihilated. A mother slaughters her unborn child, yet...

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