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Primeras consideraciones a la Ley Orga?nica 3/2021, de 24 de marzo, de regulación de la eutanasia. el reconocimiento de un nuevo derecho
2021
The aim of this paper is to carry out a brief study of the recent Organic Law 3/2021, of March 24, on the regulation of euthanasia (BOE. March 25, 2021) approved in Spain, from a constitutional perspective, highlighting its main aspects. The matter under study is not exempt from controversy because it covers legal, medical and ethical considerations of great complexity.
Abortion in Latin America. More Than Criminalization, Not Yet Women’s Constitutional Right
2018
Latin America abortion law is often categorized as seriously restricted. And this is so, partially. Abortion is criminalized if it does not fit in the legal indications (e.g. health risk, rape) contemplated. These indications have not only been one of the most innovative areas to expand access to legal abortion in the region in the last years – including rulings of high courts – but they also question the typical classification of Latin America as an extremely legal constrained setting. In fact, if we look closely at the world legal map, we find that only two countries have absolutely ruled out the use of criminal law to deal with voluntary abortion (Canada and few jurisdictions in Australi…
Human Dignity and Legally Protected Goods in Criminal Law
2020
Criminal law protects certain basic goods because they are directly or indirectly connected with the dignity of the person. However, in cases such as euthanasia, prostitution or surrogacy motherhood, the appeal to the dignity of the person is used, in the opposite sense, as the basis for decriminalization. In these cases, dignity is identified with the autonomy of the person and their capacity to dispose of all their goods, even if they are essential. This work argues that there is an ontological core of dignity (requirement of absolute respect) that is subtracted from autonomy and that is protected by the concept of ‘moral integrity’. It prevents certain conducts from being decriminalized …
Marihuānas dekriminalizācija Eiropas Savienībā kā sociālā kustība 21. gadsimtā
2016
Maģistra darbs „Marihuānas dekriminalizācija Eiropas Savienībā kā sociālā kustība 21.gadsimtā” ir veltīts Eiropas iedzīvotāju uzskatu un tendenču attīstības novērošanai. Juridiskais statuss marihuānas personiskai lietošanai ir viens no pretrunīgākajiem politiskajiem jautājumiem, kas iezīmē demokrātijas kontekstā pastāvošo konfliktu starp veselības aizsardzības un vienlīdzības principiem. Darbā ir izpētīts, kā attīstījusies marihuānas politika ASV, Nīderlandē un Latvijā, un kas sekmēja stingrākas marihuānas politikas veidošanu Eiropas Savienībā. Pētniecības metode ir gadījuma analīze, kuras rezultātā tiek izprasta Eiropas Pilsoņu Iniciatīvas tendence sociālās kustības perspektīvā.
The Latvian LGBT Movement and Narratives of Normalization
2019
The article examines the visibility of the LGBT community in Latvian public discourse of the last thirty years and the history of LGBT activism. Special attention is paid to the normalization of same-sex relationships: to the social processes through which ideas and actions of a social group begin crossing the threshold of deviance toward becoming “normal” and acceptable to the majority. The history of Latvian LGBT activism can be seen as a struggle for normalization of the LGBT community and overcoming the effects of its pathologization and criminalization. More than 25 years after the decriminalization of male same-sex relationships, it should be asked why the level of homophobia in socie…