Revisiting Baby Boy V. United States: Why the IACHR Resolution Did Not Effectively Undermine the Inter-American System on Human Rights’ Protection of the Right to Life from Conception

IV. A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF BABY BOY AND ITS PREMISES 237 A. States Parties’ Original Intent Behind the American Declaration and Convention 238 1. The Explicit Right to Life of ―Those Who are Not Yet Born,‖ ―From the Moment of Conception‖ in the Draft American Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man 238 2. The Recognition of the ―Right to Life from the Moment of Conception‖ Since the 1959 Inter-American Council of Jurists‘ Draft Convention 256 B. The IACHR’s Breach of International Rules of Interpretation 262 1. The Ordinary Meaning of Article 4(1) of the