Definition of Right to Life

The very complex concept of right to life is a relatively new concept that arises in postmodern societies in the face of the advancement of various and very many problems that tend to threaten the normal development of life in certain sectors social. The concept of the right to life borders on the legal and legal sphere when it comes to crimes or actions that attempt against life, but without a doubt that it is a concept that goes beyond this field and can also be taken to the field of ethics, moral, of values, of religion, of society, etc.

When we speak of the notion of the right to life, we are referring to no less and no less than the most primordial right that every human being has (and also all living being) to live, from the moment it begins to exist or to take shape (that is, regardless of whether he was born or not). The right to life is one of the rights of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, for which respecting and complying with it in all cases is of utmost importance for the good of society all.

The right to life can be violated and even annulled in many different situations. While in some of these situations the person responsible for the violence, in many others the executor of that violence that puts in danger life is much more invisible since it deals with very long-term problems or phenomena that do not allow a single individual to be identified as responsible.

As stated, there are very numerous ways in which the right to life can be annulled. The clearest cases are when a person, through violence, ceases with the life of another person or being alive. This cessation of life of the person can occur when the person has already been born or is still in the womb of his mother (in which case we must speak of abortion). However, there are many actions that can endanger life and that contribute to the fact that that life that already exists does not be dignified: this is when we speak of a more silent and profound violence that crystallizes through misery, the poverty, hunger, malnutrition and the lack of equal access to resources of first necesity.