Conflicts of Rights: Moral Theory and Social Policy Implications

Routledge (1999)
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The language of rights is utilized frequently in debates over contemporary social issues?a fetus's?right to life? versus a woman's?right to choose,? for example. Because these debates pertain to what our social policies should be, it is clear that the rights in question are moral rights, and that existing legal rights ought to be changed or maint.

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9780367315139   9780429501432   9780813365640   0813365643   0367315130   0813391229

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