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“... where these may also shorten life. In his lucid and powerful book, the Canadian philosopher L.W. Sumner argues that this distinction is indefensible. His target is what he calls the Conventional View, namely that there is ‘an ethical “bright line” between assisted death, on the one hand, and all other end-of-life measures which may hasten death, on the ...”

“... side of this debate that they had these allies – for their arguments were not convincing. L.W. Sumner’s depiction of these long debates displays clearly how inconclusive they have been. The liberal view, as it has repeatedly been elaborated, sees abortion fundamentally as a private matter: since the foetus is not a person and lacks ‘moral ...”