"Bodily integrity" means having control and ownership over one's own body, including the right to make decisions about what happens to it and who can touch it.
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Circumcision, Frisch writes, is problematic not only because it violates a boy's
bodily integrity when he is too young to consent.
The fear of enduring unceasing pain, of being trapped by medical machines, of
losing bodily integrity and personal dignity and of being an emotional and financial drain on one's loved ones — such fear lends strength to the movement for euthanasia and for physician - assisted suicide (PAS).
The driving element behind VSED is that forcing people to ingest food is as objectionable an intrusion
on bodily integrity, privacy, and liberty as imposing unwanted medical treatment.
Her films and installations explore control and
bodily integrity through storylines and images familiar to horror fans — a syringe slowly approaching a throat, or a worm emerging from between a woman's lips.
Skirting illegibility and articulating the impossibility of
realizing bodily integrity, Olesen presents a drawing of a container / machine (resembling Picabia's mechanical drawings) with words in felt pen: «ON / OFF,» «SELFPRODUCTION,» and «PENIS.»
It was drafted to reinforce the understanding that women have an inherent right of control over their
own bodily integrity and that human dignity and equality rights demand nothing less» (at para. 12).
By way of example, a person has the right to
bodily integrity, since its absence would frustrate him in his quest for happiness.
And that concession, as we have seen, would eclipse the Church's whole vision of marriage and family — a vision that ultimately serves the needs of children, the internal requirements of marital love, and the dignity of every person in her or
his bodily integrity.
It privileges, inter alia, the interests of boys and men over
the bodily integrity, autonomy, and dignity of girls and women.
My critics reject the argument that the ruling violates the religious liberty rights of Jews and Muslims; they maintain that, on the contrary, infant circumcision violates the rights of children to
bodily integrity and religious liberty, since they can not consent to being circumcised.
A moral analysis of ESCR, as it is likely to proceed, therefore requires reckoning not only with the lives of those who suffer from juvenile diabetes or Parkinson's, but also with the specter of women sacrificing
their bodily integrity for our sakes.
«To most Europeans,» Frisch writes, «circumcision is an ethically problematic ritual that is intrinsically harmful to children: every child has the right to protection of his or
her bodily integrity and the right to explore and enjoy his or her undiminished sexual capacity later in life.»
Every man has the right to life, to
bodily integrity and to the means which are necessary and suitable for the proper development of life.
What about her right to
bodily integrity?
The other trouble with the American MDs is that they seem to have lost all respect for women's civil rights, indeed for the U.S. Constitution — the right to privacy, to
bodily integrity, and the right of every adult to determine her own health care.
His success sends a message that you can boast about abusing women's
bodily integrity and still become the most powerful man in the world.
They differ from broader notions of human rights through claims of an inherent historical and traditional bias against the exercise of rights by women and girls, in favor of men and boys.Issues commonly associated with notions of women's rights include, though are not limited to, the right: to
bodily integrity and autonomy; to be free from sexual violence; to...
This ability to violate
the bodily integrity of eroticized women for fun highlights two other insidious aspects of objectification, those being violability and disposability.
The plaintiffs in Flint raise several different constitutional claims, including allegations that officials violated residents» rights to due process of law by endangering their «fundamental liberty interest to
bodily integrity,» as well as claims that officials engaged in racial discrimination.
While this rational is compelling to crimes such as impaired driving (where intoxication makes up an element of the offence), or sexual assault (where
the bodily integrity of the victim is compromised), it is less compelling for crimes that simply require the offender to have said something.
It is in general concerned with non-pecuniary interests, such as
bodily integrity, physical property and reputation which are inherently entitled to its protection
It contends that the decision to switch the water source denied residents their civil rights to
bodily integrity and to be free from state - created danger.
These zones of privacy were affirmed in R. v. Tessling, [2004] 3 S.C.R. 432 where Justice Ian Binnie described them with a slight variation in language, at paras. 21 - 23: personal privacy (
bodily integrity), territorial privacy (privacy in the home) and informational privacy (information about ourselves and our activities).
The appeal raised an important area of the law relating to search and seizure, privacy, and
bodily integrity — an area of law that is consistently modified and re-balanced by the Supreme Court.
Trauma is the unique individual experience of an event or enduring conditions in which the individual's ability to integrate his / her emotional experience is overwhelmed, and the individual experiences (either objectively or subjectively) a threat to her / her life,
bodily integrity, or that of a caregiver or family.
Trauma is the unique individual experience of an event or enduring conditions in which the individual's ability to integrate his / her emotional experience is overwhelmed and the individual experiences (either objectively or subjectively) a threat to his / her life,
bodily integrity, or that of a caregiver or family (Saakvitne, K. et al, 2000).