Supreme Court backs assisted suicide
The US Supreme Court has upheld a law allowing
doctors in the state of Oregon to help terminally ill patients die.
A little history
The US Supreme Court has upheld a law allowing doctors in the state of Oregon to help terminally ill patients die, in a defeat for the Bush administration.
Justices voted 6-3 to back the law, under which doctors are thought to have assisted with at least 208 suicides.
The ruling could free other states to pass laws like Oregon’s, which is the only one of its kind in the US.
New Chief Justice John Roberts was in the minority in the court’s first major case on ethics since he joined it.
Another tiny step away from faith-based pettifoggery.
Posted: Tue - January 17, 2006 at 02:55 PM