The House of Atreus
Subtitle: abortion as a human rights issue
By: James F. Bohan.
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Abortion -- United States.; Right to life -- United States.; Abortion -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Description: Using clear language and unconventional examples, this book argues that abortion is not merely a "medical" or "religious" issue, but one that goes to the very heart of our conception of human rights. It demonstrates that the unborn are living human beings, that all human beings have a right to life, and that denying the right to life of some weakens the right to life of all.

Bohan supports his thesis by pointing to human rights treaties, the Declaration of Independence, and the words of such luminaries as Albert Schweitzer. Frederick Douglass, Pearl S. Buck, Elie Wiesel, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.