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Definition of Right to life
1. Noun. The right to live.
Definition of Right to life
1. Noun. (context: public policy legal ethics) The right of a human being to the continuation of his or her life. ¹
2. Noun. (context: public policy legal ethics) The moral or legal entitlement of an unborn child to be born, and not to have its life terminated by an abortion or other medical procedure. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Right To Life
Literary usage of Right to life
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Social Work by Edward Thomas Devine (1922)
"NEW MEANING OF THE right to life What rights then remain to be established,
comparable with the right to life and liberty and equality before the law? ..."
2. Social Work by Edward Thomas Devine (1922)
"NEW MEANING OF THE right to life .What rights then remain to be established,
comparable with the right to life and liberty and equality before the law? ..."
3. A Manual of Elementary Law: Being a Summary of the Well-settled Elementary by William Pinckney Fishback (1896)
"The right of personal security is the most important of all rights and it consists
in a person's legal and uninterrupted enjoyment, (a) of the right to life ..."
4. The Underlying Principles of Modern Legislation by William Jethro Brown (1920)
"I.—THE right to life. The difference between the earlier and later doctrines as
regards the right to life may be illustrated by the question of capital ..."
5. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University (1896)
"... and that many young men and young women worked in the fields naked but for
cloths around their loins.1 The Slave's Right to Life. ..."
6. Elementary Law by William Callyhan Robinson (1910)
"Of the Right to Life. A natural person comes into complete legal being when he
is fully born; that is, when his body has been separated from the body of his ..."
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