On the puzzling death of the sanctity-of-life argument
| dc.contributor.author | Stevens, Katharina | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-20T21:53:28Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-10-20T21:53:28Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
| dc.description | Accepted author manuscript | |
| dc.description.abstract | The passage of time influences the content of the law and therefore also the validity of legal arguments. This is true even for charter-arguments, despite the widely held view that constitutional law is made to last. In this paper, I investigate the reason why the sanctity-of life argument against physician assisted suicide lost its validity between the Supreme Court decision in Rodriguez v. British Columbia in 1993 and Carter v. Canada in 2015. I suggest that a rhetorical approach to argument evaluation is the best basis for a satisfying explanation | |
| dc.description.peer-review | Yes | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Stevens, K. (2020). On the puzzling death of the sanctity-of-life argument. Argumentation, 34, 55.81. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10503-019-09491-1 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10133/7186 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Springer | |
| dc.publisher.department | Department of Philosophy | |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Arts and Science | |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Lethbridge | |
| dc.publisher.url | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10503-019-09491-1 | |
| dc.subject | Constitutional law | |
| dc.subject | Charter interpretation | |
| dc.subject | Argument validity | |
| dc.subject | Time | |
| dc.subject | Universal audience | |
| dc.subject | Waluchow | |
| dc.subject | Living tree constitutionalism | |
| dc.subject | Common-law constitutionalism | |
| dc.subject | Sanctity-of-life | |
| dc.subject | Physician assisted suicide | |
| dc.title | On the puzzling death of the sanctity-of-life argument | |
| dc.type | Article |