Do unborn people have the right to life?

Right to life of the unborn--an assessment of the eighth amendment to the Irish constitution.

Animals have a right to life.

State and church must be separated; therefore the legal and the judicial system may not be based on religious dogmas but instead must be grounded on empirical-rational ethics, which are amenable to consensus. To achieve this, consciousness must be described in scientific terms and the anthropocentric view of animals as fundamentally different to humans must be criticised on a factual basis. It ...

Do you have the right stuff?

Are you creative, innovative, motivated, and interested in sharing your engineering expertise? Do you have the next great idea just waiting to be developed into a prototype? If you answered yes, you may have what it takes to participate in the EIC Expert, EIC Volunteer, and Inventeers programs. Experts LEARN new skills and how to use the resources in the EIC. Volunteers SHARE their knowledge wi...

Do the sick have a right to cadaveric organs?

One way of increasing the supply of organs for transplantation is to adopt a policy giving the sick a right to cadaveric organs. Such a right would entail the coercive transfer of organs from the dead without their previous consent. Because this policy would violate individual autonomy and the special relation between humans and their bodies, it would be morally unjustifiable. Although a rights...

Stem cell research on other worlds, or why embryos do not have a right to life.

Anxieties about the creation and destruction of human embryos for the purpose of scientific research on embryonic stem cells have given a new urgency to the question of whether embryos have moral rights. This article uses a thought experiment involving two possible worlds, somewhat removed from our own in the space of possibilities, to shed light on whether early embryos have such rights as a r...