TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - On the Puzzling Death of the Sanctity-of-Life Argument
JO  - Argumentation
A1  - Stevens, K.
SP  - 55
EP  - 81
VL  - 34
IS  - 1
N2  - 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. © 2019, Springer Nature B.V.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0920-427X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10503-019-09491-1
ID  - ref1
ER  -