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Abortion | |
Introduction | |
The Unspeakable Crime of Abortion | |
On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion | |
Why Abortion is Immoral Judith | |
A Defense of Abortion | |
Majority Opinion in Roe v. Wade Justices Sandra Day O'Connor | |
Opinion in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern | |
Governor of Pennsylvania | |
Abortion: A Feminist Perspective | |
Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 1 | |
Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide | |
Introduction | |
Active and Passive Euthanasia | |
Killing and Allowing to Die | |
Voluntary Active Euthanasia | |
Objections to the Institutionalization of Euthanasia | |
Assisted Suicide Is Not Voluntary Active Euthanasia Chief Justice | |
Opinion of the Court in Washington v. Glucksberg | |
Concurring Opinion in Washington v. Glucksberg and Vacco v. Quill | |
Voluntary Death: A Comparison of Terminal Dehydration and Physician-Assisted Suicide | |
Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 2 | |
The Death Penalty | |
Introduction | |
Justices Potter Stewart | |
Opinion in Gregg v. Georgia Justice | |
Dissenting Opinion in Gregg v. Georgia | |
A Life for a Life | |
An Eye for an Eye? | |
Deterrence and the Death Penalty | |
Common Sense, the Deterrent Effect of the Death Penalty, and the Best Bet Argument | |
Studies Find Death Penalty Tied to Race of the Victims Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 3 | |
Sexual Morality | |
Introduction | |
Morality and Human Sexuality | |
Sexual Morality and the Concept of Using Another Person | |
The Harms of Consensual Sex | |
Why Shouldn't Tommy and Jim Have Sex? A Defense of Homosexuality | |
Majority Opinion in Bowers v. Hardwick | |
Dissenting Opinion in Bowers v. Hardwick | |
Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 4 | |
Pornography, Hate Speech, and Censorship | |
Introduction | |
On Liberty The Attorney's General's Commission on Pornography, The Question of Harm | |
Pornography, Oppression, and Freedom: A Closer Look | |
Feminism, Pornography, and Censorship | |
Majority Opinion in Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union | |
Illinois Supreme Court | |
Opinion in Village of Skokie v. National Socialist Party of America | |
Racist Speech as the Functional Equivalent of Fighting Words | |
Liberalism and Campus Hate Speech: A Philosophical Examination | |
Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 5 | |
Drug Control and Addiction | |
Introduction | |
Opinion in Commonwealth v. Joseph | |
The Ethics of Addiction | |
The Ethics of Smoking | |
The Case for Legalization | |
Against the Legalization of Drugs | |
Addiction and Drug Policy | |
Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 6 | |
Social and Economic Justice | |
Introduction | |
What Libertarianism Is | |
A Moral Case for Socialism | |
Five Faces of Oppression | |
The African-American Underclass and the Question of Values | |
Paternalism and Welfare | |
The End of Welfare | |
Liberal Equality and Inherited Wealth | |
Homelessness and the Issue of Freedom | |
Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 7 | |
World Hunger and Poverty | |
Introduction | |
The Presidential Commission on World Hunger | |
Why Should the United States Be Concerned | |
Living on a Lifeboat | |
Some Facts About Famine | |
Property and Hunger | |
Closing the Gender Gap in Development | |
Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 8 | |
Animals | |
Introduction | |
All Animals Are Equal | |
The Case for Animal Rights | |
Moral Vegetarianism and the Argument from Pain and Suffering | |
The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research | |
Human and Animal Rights Compared | |
Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 9 | |
The Environment | |
Introduction | |
People or Penguins: The Case for Optimal Pollution | |
For Free Market Environmentalism | |
Against Free Market Environmentalism | |
Just Garbage | |
The Land Ethic | |
Environmental Ethics | |
Deep Ecology | |
Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness | |
Preservation: A Third World Critique | |
Suggested Additional Readings for Chapter 10 | |
About the Contributors | |
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