ABSTRACT
In ‘Is Life Sacred?’ Suzanne Uniacke discusses the relation between the
value of life and the morality of terminating life. She notices that pro-
nouncements about the sacredness of life and pronouncements about
the wrongness of terminating life often go together. She writes:
The claim that life has a special value, and the claim that it
is morally wrong to terminate life, are frequently combined,
intertwined, even taken as equivalent, in pronouncements
about the sacredness or sanctity of life. These two claims
are closely related of course, since the value that life has
will have a significant bearing on the reasons why, and the
conditions under which, it can be wrong to terminate life . . . .
