The right to life is one of the fundamental human rights that has been recognized and guaranteed in all religious texts and in many international documents, including the European Convention on Human Rights. Nevertheless, at the same time as the ease of meaning, its conceptual difficulty has been challenged by various lawyers. This Include the death penalty, suicide, Otanazi, abortion as the most important legal challenge to the right to life, which is in practice a place of serious controversy, especially in the courts. As a Judicial basis for the European Convention on Human Rights, the Human Rights Commission and its alternative, the European Court of Human Rights, have not been excluded from these challenges. Among these challenges, it can be questioned by the two authorities about the challenge of the beginning and the end of life, The Challenge of beginning of life goes to the time of protecting the right to life and the place of conflict is whether or not it is protected by the life of embryo in the issue of abortion and the challenge of ending life is refer to the feasibility of supporting self-mediated deaths. The variety of opinions and the number of citations, resulted in a variety of voted, some of which have played a fundamental roleThis article seeks to examine the evolution of such views that have a fundamental and procedural description of abortion and self-imposed death.
Please cite this article as: Abbasi M, Ghassemi A, Rezaee R. Evolution of the European Court of Human Rights encountering with challenges of the right to life: A Case Study of Fundamental Abortion and Mortality Votes. Iran J Med Law 2019; 13(48): 157-184.
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Received: 2018/05/10 | Accepted: 2018/12/23