RIGHT TO BENEFIT FROM SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS Article 15 of International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights recognizes the right of all persons to benefit from scientific progress and its application.59 The right to benefit from scientific progress is important because it is through scientific investigation that the most modern forms 59 See also Report of the Special Rapporteur, A/ HRC/20/26 on the field of cultural rights (2012) 114 of contraceptives have been created, just as scientific progress has made the present maternal and child mortality and morbidity unnecessary. It is also due to medical and scientific development that assisted reproduction is possible. Women’s freedom from unwanted pregnancy by means of safe, effective, and convenient contraceptives has been achieved by scientific progress.