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human noun being, body, character, human being, individual, living soul, man, member of the human race, one, particular one, party, person, woman
Associated concepts: human rights law, United NationsDeclaration of Human Rights
See also: bodily, character, person, physical
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While the European Convention uses a holistic personality-identity framework for focusing on the value of the human being and the dignity and value of humanhood, the Bioethics Convention endeavors to enlarge and build upon this concept of respect, dignity, and protection and seeks to apply it to human substances as well, thereby safeguarding genetic heritage.
Human rights and bioethics: formulating a universal right to health, ... by Smith, George P., II / Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
The statement of Rabbi Moshe David Tendler that "the proposition that humanhood begins at zygote formation, even in vitro, is without basis in [Jewish] biblical moral theology" should make hypercertain Catholics a little humbler about their pronouncements about ensoulment.
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A Deficient, Subhuman Gender Down through the ages, women have been persistently portrayed as a subpar species, sometimes lacking even the most fundamental vestiges of humanhood.
Female objects of semantic dehumanization and violence by Brennan, William / Studies in Prolife Feminism
 
 
 
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