Unborn Human Life and Fundamental Rights -- An Important New Book in Comparative Law

The publishing house of Peter Lang has released an important book edited by Pillar Zambrano of the University of Navarra and William L. Saunders of the Catholic University of America entitled Unborn Human Life and Fundamental Rights. The books chapters present essays by leading scholars examing the legal status of unborn children in various jurisdictions. I read the essays in manuscript for the publisher and had this to say:

This book brings together an impressive group of scholars and obtained from them work of the highest intellectual caliber. In the struggle for the protections of all innocent human life, it will prove to be an invaluable tool.

The volume opens with two excellent essays on abortion law in the United States--one by Bill Saunders and one by Gerard V. Bradley of Notre Dame Law School. There is a very important concluding reflection by John Finnis of Oxford University and Notre Dame. Appropriately, the book is dedicated to Mary Ann Glendon of Harvard Law School as "a valiant defender of the dignity and rights of every member of the human family."