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| Preface and Acknowledgements | |
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| Abortion | |
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| The Problem of Abortion Today | |
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| The Basic Argument and Some Responses | |
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| Sentience: A Bad Argument Against Abortion | |
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| A Return to the Basic Argument | |
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| Objection from Brain Activity | |
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| Objection from Sorites Paradoxes | |
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| Objection from Begging the Question | |
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| Objection from Sperm and Egg | |
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| Objection from Fission and Totipotency | |
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| Objection from Cloning and Parthenogenesis | |
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| A Feminist Argument for Abortion | |
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| The Foetus, the Person and the Person | |
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| Abortion, the Law and the Public Good - a Concluding Note | |
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| 'I Personally Disapprove of Abortion But Would Not Impose my Opinion on Other People | |
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| ''It is Not the Business of the Law to Interfere with Such a Difficult Decision | |
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| 'The 'Backstreet' Objection | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Euthanasia | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Varieties of Euthanasia | |
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| Voluntary Euthanasia and Autonomy | |
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| Non-Voluntary Euthanasia and 'Quality of Life' | |
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| Active and Passive Euthanasia | |
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| Ordinary and Extraordinary Means | |
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| Euthanasia, Death and 'Brain Death' | |
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| Euthanasia and Nazism | |
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| Animals | |
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| The Problem | |
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| The Conditions for Rights - What They Are Not | |
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| Consciousness | |
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| Beliefs and Desires | |
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| Language. Self-Consciousness | |
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| Action in Pursuit of Desires and Goals | |
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| The Conditions for Rights - What They Are | |
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| Knowledge of Purpose | |
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| Free Will | |
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| Two Dilemmas for the View that Animals Have Rights | |
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| So How Should we Treat Animals? | |
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| Capital Punishment | |
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| A Conflict? | |
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| Punishment - General Principles | |
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| Capital Punishment - the Argument | |
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| Objections. What if an Innocent Person is Executed? | |
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| Capital Punishment is Irreversible | |
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| Capital Punishment is not a Deterrent | |
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| Capital Punishment is Just State-Sanctioned Murder | |
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| Capital Punishment is Cruel and Inhuman | |
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| What about Mercy and Compassion? | |
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| Capital Punishment Fails to Respect Persons | |
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| Concluding Remarks on Hypocrisy | |
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| War | |
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| Some Questions | |
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| War, Pacifism and Self-Defence | |
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| Self-Defence - Basic Principles | |
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| Going to War | |
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| Basic Principles of the Just War | |
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| Just Cause | |
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| Questions about the Justice of the Cause | |
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| Conduct During War | |
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| Globalism | |
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| Notes and Further Reading | |