Human Right: Unwind In today’s world, choices are considered a God-given right and life considered precious. Human rights are the rights inhere to all human beings. But in some places in the world, people are not so fortunate earning these basic rights. Where they are being deprived, loosing their freedom and equality rights. The novel Unwind by Neal Shurterman describes a future second civil war in the United States, better known as “The Heartland War.” Shusterman imagines a world in which debates over abortion ultimately lead to armed conflict, in which pro-choice and pro-life armies clash. Eventually the country came into agreement or compromised called the Bill of Life where they abolish abortion. Coming from this abolished law came a …show more content…
Some violations of human rights are occurring right now as you read. A Sudanese Christian wife and mother, who was eight months pregnant was arrested and sentence to public flogging followed by execution. An Islamic court in Khartoum found her guilty of apostasy, which is leaving Islam and converting to Christianity. Acting in accordance with Islamic law, it’s a crime punishable by death. There are countless similar reported cases where human rights are violated. Pope Francis said, "The persecution of Christians today is even greater than in the first centuries of the Church, and there are more Christian martyrs today than in that era." In Egypt, while Christians were ushering in the 2011 New Years, Islamic terrorists bombed the Two Saints Church in Alexandria, killing 23 worshippers and injuring about 100 people. Just like in the novel Unwind, the teens have no human rights when it comes to becoming unwound because they have no say on what to do with their body or even to oppose. If the teens were to try to start some kind of protest they are most likely to killed or arrested and become immediately unwound. In addition, human rights are evident in real life as well as in the novel Unwind by Neal Shusterman. (Raymond