Submission-on-General-Comment-on-Article-6_FINALReproductive Health Matters has submitted written input to the work of the Human Rights Committee in preparation for a General Comment on Article 6 (Right to Life) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
Our comments are limited to the issue of maternal mortality, unsafe abortion, including as a result of criminalisation of abortion and the denial of care following miscarriage and unsafe abortion, as well as the equal right to enjoyment of the right to life of LGBTI people.