Abstract
Recently, there have been debates in Portugal regarding the morality of assisted death. One of the leading opponents in Portuguese society against assisted death are Catholics. They argue that the right to life implies that assisted death is immoral and provide four key arguments they believe justify their position. In this article, we reply to these four articles and show that they all fail.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1-8 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Ethics and Global Politics |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 10 Jan 2024 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Funding
Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues disclosed receipt of the following financial support for this article’s research, authorship, and/or publication: This research has been funded by Hunan University’s Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, fund number [531118010426]. 本文受湖南大学“中央高校基本科研业务费”专项资金资助 [531118010426]. Christopher Simon Wareham research is part of the research programme Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies, which is funded through the Gravitation programme of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO grant number [024.004.031]).
| Funders | Funder number |
|---|---|
| Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science | |
| Hunan University’s Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities | 531118010426 |
| Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek | 024.004.031 |
Keywords
- Catholic Bioethics
- Euthanasia
- Portuguese Constitutional law
- assisted death
- ethics
- harm
- killing
- the right to life