Consistently Opposing Killing: From Abortion to Assisted Suicide, the Death Penalty, and War MacNair, Rachel M. and Zunes, Stephen

This work explains an increasingly popular view dubbed the Consistent Life Ethic, which holds that all life deserves reverence, so all social support for actions that destroy life should be withdrawn. The call is for opposition to abortion, capital punishment, euthanasia and other forms of killing to be consistent. Supporters of this view, shared widely in these pages, include figures from the Dalai Lama and Nobel Peace Prize winner Malread Corrifon Maguire to actor Martin Sheen and Village Voice columnist Nat Hentoff. It is at once an ethical, religious and political ideology, explored here in its application to actions from treatment of unborn humans to infants, the disabled, the poverty-stricken, war combatants and animals.

DOI: 10.1336/031335278X Mouse over the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to learn more about this book or related books published by Greenwood Publishing Group. Visit the Greenwood Publishing Group page for this title: http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/C35278.aspx

Consistently Opposing Killing: From Abortion to Assisted Suicide, the Death Penalty, and War Hardback, 208 pages, $49.95 Copyright ©2008, Praeger Publishers ISBN: 0-313-35278-X DOI: 10.1336/031335278X

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