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  1. Death Penalty Abolition, the Right to Life, and Necessity.Ben Jones - 2023 - Human Rights Review 24 (1):77-95.
    One prominent argument in international law and religious thought for abolishing capital punishment is that it violates individuals’ right to life. Notably, this _right-to-life argument_ emerged from normative and legal frameworks that recognize deadly force against aggressors as justified when necessary to stop their unjust threat of grave harm. Can capital punishment be necessary in this sense—and thus justified defensive killing? If so, the right-to-life argument would have to admit certain exceptions where executions are justified. (...)
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  2. Interpreting the right to life.J. O. Famakinwa - 2011 - Diametros 29:22-30.
    What does the right to life mean? The article considers three interpretations: (i) the right to life as the right to life-sustaining essentials, (ii) the right to life as the right not to be killed,s and (iii) the right to life as the right not to be killed unjustly. The article argues that (i) and (iii) accurately define the human right to life. The primary method is (...)
     
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    The Right to Life, Voluntary Euthanasia, and Termination of Life on Request.Elias Moser - 2017 - Philosophy Study 7 (8):445-454.
    In this article, the logical implications of a right to life are examined. It is first argued that the prohibition of Termination of life on request confers an inalienable right to life. A right is inalienable if it cannot legitimately be waived or transferred. Since voluntary euthanasia entails waiver of the right to life, the inalienability yields that it cannot be justified. Therefore, any ethical position that is in favor of voluntary euthanasia (...)
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  4. Biopolitics, Thanatopolitics and the Right to Life.Muhammad Ali Nasir - 2017 - Theory, Culture and Society 34 (1):75-95.
    This article focuses on the interrelationship of law and life in human rights. It does this in order to theorize the normative status of contemporary biopower. To do this, the case law of Article 2 on the right to life of the European Convention on Human Rights is analysed. It argues that the juridical interpretation and application of the right to life produces a differentiated governmental management of life. It is established that: 1) Article (...)
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  5. The right to life and abortion legislation in England and Wales: a proposal for change.Jan Deckers - 2010 - Diametros 26:1-22.
    In England and Wales, there is significant controversy on the law related to abortion. Recent discussions have focussed predominantly on the health professional's right to conscientious objection. This article argues for a comprehensive overhaul of the law from the perspective of an author who adopts the view that all unborn human beings should be granted the prima facie right to life. It is argued that, should the law be modified in accordance with this stance, it need not (...)
     
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  6. Ectogenesis and the Right to Life.Prabhpal Singh - 2022 - Diametros 19 (74):51-56.
    In this discussion note on Michal Pruski and Richard C. Playford’s “Artificial Wombs, Thomson and Abortion – What Might Change?,” I consider whether the prospect of ectogenesis technology would make abortion impermissible. I argue that a Thomson-style defense may not become inapplicable due to the right to life being conceived as a negative right. Further, if Thomson-style defenses do become inapplicable, those who claim that ectogenesis would be an obligatory alternative to abortion cannot do so without first (...)
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    The Right to Life after Death.Evan Simpson - 2007 - Dialogue 46 (3):531-551.
    Imagining a future world in which people no longer die provides a helpful tool for understanding our present ethical views. It becomes evident that the cardinal virtues of prudence, temperance, and courage are options for reasonable people rather than rational requirements. On the assumption that the medical means to immortality are not universally available, even justice becomes detached from theories that tie the supposed virtue to the protection of human rights. Several stratagems are available for defending a categorical right (...)
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    The Right to Life.George P. Fletcher - 1980 - The Monist 63 (2):135-155.
    In the theory of rights we repeatedly encounter the problem of reconciling someone’s having a right, with his properly suffering damage to the interest protected by the right. In the case of right to life, we have to assess numerous cases in which individuals are killed or allowed to die, and yet we wish nonetheless to affirm their right to life. These cases include killing an aggressor in self-defense, accidental homicide, terminating life-sustaining therapy, (...)
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    The Right to Life.Hugo Bedau - 1968 - The Monist 52 (4):550-572.
    1. Of all the great natural or human rights, none has been so neglected by scholars and theorists as the right to life. Today, the salient fact about this right is the considerable disagreement over its scope, form and status. Everyone has noticed the general inflationary effect of talk about ‘human’ rights in our time, in contrast to the tidy list of ‘natural’ rights drawn up by Locke and others. Nowhere is this ballooning more noticeable than in (...)
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    Support for the Right to Life among Neonatal Intensive Care Nurses in Korea.Somin Kim & Sunhee Lee - 2024 - Asian Bioethics Review 16 (2):267-279.
    The increase of high-risk newborns due to societal changes has presented neonatal intensive care unit nurses with more ethical challenges and heightened their perception of neonatal palliative care. Therefore, this study was a descriptive survey exploring the perceptions of neonatal intensive care unit nurse regarding biomedical ethics and neonatal palliative care in neonatal intensive care units. The research participants were 97 neonatal intensive care unit nurses who had been directly involved with end-of-life care for high-risk babies. Data were collected (...)
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    Thomson, the right to life, and partial birth abortion or two MULES for Sister Sarah.P. Alward - 2002 - Journal of Medical Ethics 28 (2):99-101.
    In this paper, I argue that Thomson's famous attempt to reconcile the fetus's putative right to life with robust abortion rights is not tenable. Given her view, whether or not an abortion violates the fetus's right to life depends on the abortion procedure utilised. And I argue that Thomson's view implies that any late term abortion that involves feticide is impermissible. In particular, this would rule out the partial birth abortion technique which has been so controversial (...)
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    The right to life.K. M. Boyd - 1981 - Journal of Medical Ethics 7 (3):132-136.
    For much of human history the idea of a right to life has not seemed self-evident. The credibility of the idea appears to depend on a particular kind of intuition concerning the nature of the world. In this paper, the kind of intuition involved is related to the idea of a covenant, illustrated by that of marriage. The paper concludes by suggesting that talk about responsibilities may be more fruitful than talk about rights.
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    Animals, predators, the right to life, and the duty to save lives.Aaron Simmons - 2009 - Ethics and the Environment 14 (1):pp. 15-27.
    One challenge to the idea that animals have a moral right to life claims that any such right would require us to intervene in the wild to prevent animals from being killed by predators. I argue that belief in an animal right to life does not commit us to supporting a program of predator-prey intervention. One common retort to the predator challenge contends that we are not required to save animals from predators because predators are (...)
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    Confusion about the Right to Life.Danny Frederick - 2011 - The Reasoner 5 (1):4-5.
    I defend the consistency of affirming the right to life while rejecting universal healthcare and liveable income programmes. I also defend the rationality of accepting inconsistency.
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    The right to life.H. J. McCloskey - 1975 - Mind 84 (335):403-425.
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    Essential properties and the right to life: A response to Lee.Dean Stretton - 2004 - Bioethics 18 (3):264–282.
    ABSTRACT In ‘The Pro‐Life Argument from Substantial Identity: A Defence’, Patrick Lee argues that the right to life is an essential property of those that possess it. On his view, the right arises from one's ‘basic’ or ‘natural’ capacity for higher mental functions: since human organisms have this capacity essentially, they have a right to life essentially. Lee criticises an alternative view, on which the right to life arises from one's ‘developed’ capacity (...)
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    XI*—Neonates, Persons and the Right to Life.Edgar Page - 1989 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 89 (1):165-178.
    Edgar Page; XI*—Neonates, Persons and the Right to Life, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 89, Issue 1, 1 June 1989, Pages 165–178, https://doi.or.
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    The right to life : rethinking universalism in bioethics.Mary C. Rawlinson - 2010 - In Jackie Leach Scully, Laurel Baldwin-Ragaven & Petya Fitzpatrick (eds.), Feminist bioethics: at the center, on the margins. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 107-129.
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    Substantial identity and the right to life: A rejoinder to Dean Stretton.Patrick Lee - 2007 - Bioethics 21 (2):93-97.
    ABSTRACT In this article, I reply to criticisms of Dean Stretton of the pro‐life argument from substantial identity. When the criterion for the right to life proposed by most proponents of the pro‐life position is rightly understood – being a person, a distinct substance of a rational nature – this position does not lead to the difficulties Stretton claims it does.
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    Contradiction and Legislation Regarding the Right to Life.Kevin L. Flannery - 2022 - Nova et Vetera 20 (4):1323-1333.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Contradiction and Legislation Regarding the Right to LifeKevin L. Flannery, S.J.Unborn Human Life and Fundamental Rights: Leading Constitutional Cases under Scrutiny. Edited by Pilar Zambrano and William Saunders, with concluding reflections by John Finnis. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2019.The most fundamental principle of law is the principle of non-contradiction. This is Thomas Aquinas's position in the seminal article on the natural law, Summa theologiae I-II, question 94, article (...)
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    Life extension, overpopulation and the right to life: against lethal ethics.D. E. Cutas - 2008 - Journal of Medical Ethics 34 (9):e7-e7.
    Some of the objections to life-extension stem from a concern with overpopulation. I will show that whether or not the overpopulation threat is realistic, arguments from overpopulation cannot ethically demand halting the quest for, nor access to, life-extension. The reason for this is that we have a right to life, which entitles us not to have meaningful life denied to us against our will and which does not allow discrimination solely on the grounds of age. (...)
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    Not intrinsically unconstitutional: the Portuguese constitutional court, the right to life, and assisted death.Luís Cordeiro-Rodrigues & Christopher Simon Wareham - 2024 - Ethics and Global Politics 17 (1):1-8.
    Recently, there have been debates in Portugal regarding the morality of assisted death. One of the leading opponents in Portuguese society against assisted death are Catholics. They argue that the right to life implies that assisted death is immoral and provide four key arguments they believe justify their position. In this article, we reply to these four articles and show that they all fail.
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    The right to life.Nuclear Weapons & Shingo Shibata - 1977 - Journal of Social Philosophy 8 (3):9-14.
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    Abortion, the Right to Life, and Dependence.Timothy Hall - 2005 - Social Theory and Practice 31 (3):405-429.
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  25. The right to life of the unborn in south african law.J. D. van der Vyver - 1984 - In Ellison Kahn (ed.), The Sanctity of human life. Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand.
     
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    The right to life.Robert Armstrong - 1977 - Journal of Social Philosophy 8 (1):13-19.
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    The right to life.J. Hostler - 1977 - Journal of Medical Ethics 3 (3):143-145.
  28. The Right to Life, Genocide and the Problem of Bystander State.D. H. Jones - 2005 - In John K. Roth (ed.), Genocide and Human Rights: A Philosophical Guide. Palgrave-Macmillan. pp. 265--276.
     
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  29. The right to life-nature and work in Fichte, jg.C. Depascale - 1988 - Archives de Philosophie 51 (4):597-612.
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    Justice and the right to life.Sheila Grant & William Christian - 1998 - In Sheila Grant & William Christian (eds.), The George Grant Reader. University of Toronto Press. pp. 107-122.
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    Abortion and the Right to Life.L. S. Carrier - 1975 - Social Theory and Practice 3 (4):381-401.
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    Substantial identity and the right to life: A rejoinder to Dean Stretton.L. E. E. Patrick - 2007 - Bioethics 21 (2):93–97.
    ABSTRACT In this article, I reply to criticisms of Dean Stretton of the pro‐life argument from substantial identity. When the criterion for the right to life proposed by most proponents of the pro‐life position is rightly understood – being a person, a distinct substance of a rational nature – this position does not lead to the difficulties Stretton claims it does.
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  33. Abortion, Property Rights, and the Right to Life.L. H. O'driscoll - 1977 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 58 (2):99.
     
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    Challenging some myths about the right to life at the end of life. 2: Reinstating the ethically excluded.Elizabeth Wicks - 2012 - Clinical Ethics 7 (1):24-27.
    This article continues the rejection of certain myths about the right to life at the end of life commenced in an article in the previous issue of the journal Clinical Ethics. It focuses upon ethical arguments that seek to exclude two categories of human beings from the usual protection of human life: those described as ‘non-persons’ and those ‘designated for death’. The article argues that, while the protection offered to life by means of the (...) to life is far from absolute, the right remains applicable to all human beings, irrespective of their life expectancy or mental capacity. (shrink)
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    Challenging some myths about the right to life at the end of life. 1: Not an absolute right.Elizabeth Wicks - 2011 - Clinical Ethics 6 (4):167-171.
    This article, and a related one in the next issue, investigates some myths surrounding the application of the right to life at the end of life. The present article focuses upon the myth that the right to life is an absolute right, always requiring the preservation of life. It identifies three distinct situations in which state authorities may be justified in declining to take intervening action in order to save a life. It (...)
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    Infanticide and the Right to Life.Alan Carter - 1997 - Ratio 10 (1):1-9.
    Michael Tooley defends infanticide by analysing ‘A has a right to X’ as roughly synonymous with ‘If A desires X, then others are under a prima facie obligation to refrain from actions that would deprive him [or her] of it.’ An infant who cannot conceive of himself or herself as a continuing subject of experiences cannot desire to continue existing. Hence, on Tooley’s analysis, killing the infant is not impermissible, for it does not go against any of the infant’s (...)
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    Animals, Heidegger, and the Right to Life.George S. Cave - 1982 - Environmental Ethics 4 (3):249-254.
    Quantitative utilitarianism demands equal treatment of human and nonhuman animals where there are no relevant differences between them. A difference is relevant only if it excludes the animal from suffering evil if it is treated differently. Quantitative utilitarianism cannot, however, resolve conflicts of interest nor prove that painless killing of animals is morally wrong. For this we need a higher qualitativegood. I suggest Care, as Heidegger understands it, is such a good, and that it is the essence not only of (...)
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    Children and the right to life in the canon law and the magisterium of the catholic church: 1878 to the present.Charles J. Reid Jr - manuscript
    This article considers the various emergence of an explicitly recognized right to life in papal teaching and the canon law of the last century and a quarter. The Church's opposition to abortion is deeply embedded within the tradition and law of the Church. It was, however, only in recent times, since the middle twentieth century, really, that the Church began to speak explicitly of a right to life. This paper explores the consequences for papal thought of (...)
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    The right to family life: Why the genetic link requirement for surrogacy should be struck out.D. Thaldar - 2023 - South African Journal of Bioethics and Law:84-91.
    Background. South African surrogacy law includes a provision, known as the genetic link requirement, that commissioning parents must use their own gametes for the conception of a surrogate child. As a result, infertile persons who cannot contribute gametes for the conception of a child are prohibited from accessing surrogacy as a way to establish families. The genetic link requirement was previously the subject of a constitutional challenge, but the challenge was rejected by a divided Constitutional Court bench with a seven-to-four (...)
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    Mongolism, Parental Desires, and the Right to Life.James M. Gustafson - 1973 - Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 16 (4):529-557.
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    The ‘French exception’: the right to continuous deep sedation at the end of life.Ruth Horn - 2018 - Journal of Medical Ethics 44 (3):204-205.
    In 2016, a law came into force in France granting terminally ill patients the right to continuous deep sedation until death. This right was proposed as an alternative to euthanasia and presented as the ‘French response’ to problems at the end of life. The law draws a distinction between CDS and euthanasia and other forms of sympton control at the end of life. France is the first country in the world to legislate on CDS. This short (...)
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    The 'French exception: the right to continuous deep sedation at the end of life.Ruth Horn - 2018 - Journal of Medical Ethics Recent Issues 44 (3):204-205.
    In 2016, a law came into force in France granting terminally ill patients the right to continuous deep sedation until death. This right was proposed as an alternative to euthanasia and presented as the ‘French response’ to problems at the end of life. The law draws a distinction between CDS and euthanasia and other forms of sympton control at the end of life. France is the first country in the world to legislate on CDS. This short (...)
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    The Right to Be Loved.S. Matthew Liao - 2015 - New York, US: Oxford University Press USA.
    S. Matthew Liao argues here that children have a right to be loved. To do so he investigates questions such as whether children are rightholders; what grounds a child's right to beloved; whether love is an appropriate object of a right; and other philosophical and practical issues. His proposal is that all human beings have rights to the fundamental conditions for pursuing a good life; therefore, as human beings, children have human rights to the fundamental conditions (...)
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    Abortion and the Right to Life.L. S. Carrier - 1975 - Social Theory and Practice 3 (Fall):381-401.
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    Dueling and the right to life.Lance K. Stell - 1979 - Ethics 90 (1):7-26.
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    Infanticide and the right to life.Alan Carter - 1997 - Ratio 10 (1):1–9.
    Michael Tooley defends infanticide by analysing ‘A has a right to X’ as roughly synonymous with ‘If A desires X, then others are under a prima facie obligation to refrain from actions that would deprive him [or her] of it.’ An infant who cannot conceive of himself or herself as a continuing subject of experiences cannot desire to continue existing. Hence, on Tooley’s analysis, killing the infant is not impermissible, for it does not go against any of the infant’s (...)
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    The Right to Refusal of Unwanted End-of-Life Interventions for Pregnant Persons: Additional Challenges to Reproductive Rights Post-Roe.Hannah Carpenter & Bryanna Moore - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics 24 (2):61-63.
    In their article, ‘The Two Front War on Reproductive Rights,’ Minkoff, Vullikanti, and Marshall (2024) highlight the challenges faced by pregnant persons following the overturn of Roe v. Wade (Dobb...
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  48. Abortion and the Right to Life.Alan H. Goldman - 1979 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 60 (4):402.
     
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    Moral Agents and the Right to Life.Gerald H. Paske - 1989 - Southwest Philosophy Review 5 (1):77-85.
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    Paper: The right to die in the minimally conscious state.L. Syd M. Johnson - 2011 - Journal of Medical Ethics 37 (3):175-178.
    The right to die has for decades been recognised for persons in a vegetative state, but there remains controversy about ending life-sustaining medical treatment for persons in the minimally conscious state. The controversy is rooted in assumptions about the moral significance of consciousness, and the value of life for patients who are conscious and not terminally ill. This paper evaluates these assumptions in light of evidence that generates concerns about quality of life in the MCS. It (...)
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