TY - BOOK AU - Cragg, Wesley TI - Contemporary Moral Issues SN - 0075527847 U1 - N43 PY - 1997/// CY - New Delhi PB - Mcgraw Hill Publishing Company Ltd KW - Social Ethics N1 - includes index and biblioraphy; 1. Euthanasia .........1 Euthanasia , Medicine, and Rodriguez V. British Columbia (Attorney General), 1993 the Law ..............14 Active and passive Euthenasia .............17 The Right to Die ...............22 Sanctity of Life and Quality of Life - Are They Compatible ......29 2. Abortion ................41 Dr. Henry Morgentaler V. Her Majesty the Queen, 1988 Madame Justice Bertha Wilson Abortion and Rights ..........55 A Defense of Abortion .............61 Abortion and the Concept of a Person ..........73 Abortion and the Feminine voice ...............80 Abortion though a Feminist Ethics Lens ..............94 3. Capital Punishment .........110 Re kindler and Minister of Justice, Amnesty international intervener, 1991 SPeech in favour of Capital punishment .............................125 Is Capital Punishment a Unique Deterrent ............130 Fact Sheet Changes in Reporting mask violent crime Trends ............147 Fact Sheet Suppliment : Homicide Trends .................155 Retributivism and the death penalty ........156 Race and the death penalty ............169 4. Pornography ..............178 Donald Victor Butler V. Her Majesty the Queen, 1992..........183 The Moral Right of the Majority to Restrict obscenity and Pornography through law ....................189 Pornography, Censorship, and Obsenity law in Canada ...........................198 Sexual equality and the problem of an Adequate moral theory : The Poverty of Liberalism ............208 Liberal feminism : The Glimmer of hope ..........216 Individual Feminism : A True defense of Pornography ...............220 5. Discimination ...............224 Law society of British Columbia Et al. V. andrews et Al. 1989...............230 The Ramp to Hell ...........237 Calling Slave a slave ..........238 Why Liberals should support same sex marriage ..........240 Sexism ..........257 Should white men play the blues ........270 The new cultural Politics of Difference ........277 Disability and eQuality ...............286 6. Affirmative action .........294 Blowing the whistle on Discrimination ..........308 Giving women an Even Break at work ...............310 Affirmative action :How far Should we go ............311 Fair Hiring and Affirmative action ........313 Positive sexism ..........326 Expanding the Role of Role Modelling ..........340 7. Aboriginal Rights ..........360 Rights of the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada...............363 Canadian History : An Aboriginal Perspective ...........365 Aboriginal Rights ............370 Aboriginal rights of the aboriginal Peoples of the Continent of North America ............388 The Character of Aboriginal Governmental rights .........395 Aboriginal land Rights in Northern Canad a........402 8. Poverty .............418 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural rights ..........422 The right t eat and the Duty to work .............433 Property and hunger .................443 Economic Inequality : Justice and Incentives ..........450 9. Environmental Ethics ....................464 Canada : New World without revolution ..........467 Sustainability and Historical Injustice : Lesson from the moose river basin .............472 Duties concerning islands ...............492 Honey dribbles down your fur ...........503 Against animal Rights ...............514 10. Tools and theories ..........536 The categorical imperative .......539 The virtue of Selfishness ...........545 Utilitarianism ..........548 Relativism ..........555 The need for more than justice ...........562 ER -