A terminally-ill woman in Oregon chose to end her life last week, should she be allowed to make this choice? A nurse in Maine aggressively fought that state's strict Ebola quarantine, does the greater good trump individual rights? Courts throughout the country are grappling with same-sex marriage bans, are people entitled to marry?
On this edition of Up to Date, guest-host Jeremy Bernfeld and the Ethics Professors sift through these moral dilemmas and the questions they raise.
Guests:
- Wayne Vaught is the dean of the University of Missouri - Kansas City's College of Arts and Sciences, as well as a professor of Philosophy, Medicine and Biotehics.
- Clancy Martin is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Missouri - Kansas City.
