Contents: Introduction: Interrogating the morality of human rights - introductory overview
Part I. The morality of human rights
1. Preliminary questions
2. The most fundamental question: What justification, if any?
Part II. Two fundamental human rights: Moral equality and moral freedom
3. The human right to moral equality and the constitutional right to equal protection
4. The human right to moral freedom and the constitutional right of privacy
Part III. Three human-rights-based controversies: Capital punishment, abortion, and same-sex marriage
5. Capital punishment as a contested human rights issue
6. Criminalizing abortion as a contested human rights issue
7. Excluding same-sex couples from civil marriage as a contested human rights issue
8. Who decides?
Part IV. Antipoverty rights
and vulnerability theory
9. Poverty as a human rights issue 10. Vulnerability theory and the morality of human rights: Complementary, not competitive
Conclusion: Human rights inflation? Extreme economic inequality and global warming as human rights issues
Appendix
Index.