Joe Carter gives a strong positive review to The Party of Death by Ramesh Ponnuru. An excerpt:
If human beings have an intrinsic dignity and worth, then they have this dignity and worth simply because they are human beings. It follows that all human beings have this dignity and worth. They are equal in the fundamental rights that attach to being human.
In contrast, the “party of death” has created the concept of “human non-persons” in order to justify the taking of innocent human life. They believe that human organisms have basic rights because of certain qualities they possess, such as the capacity for abstract mental functioning. But by basing dignity on such qualitative conditions it becomes impossible to explain why people who have more of a quality (i.e., artists, geniuses) should not be regarded as having more worth. As Ponnuru notes, “The notion that all human beings are created equal becomes a self-evident lie.”