Natural Rights Violations

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Natural rights are basic moral rights that are not tied to legal or other sort of obligations. These rights cannot be taken away by human law. A mother from Sacramento is ordered by a judge to stop smoking around her five year old son. This mother is in the middle of a custody battle with the boy’s father. The father claims the boy’s health is in danger by breathing second hand smoke. The parties involved are the mother who is the one accused of allowing her child to be around second hand smoke. The father is the one bringing the claim before a judge. The mother and father are also in a custody battle. And lastly the boy who is being exposed to the second hand smoke. The moral issue here is the boy’s right to health, second hand smoke is known

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