The Constitution and Hastening Inevitable Death
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The constitution and hastening inevitable death.
The due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects the right of terminally ill persons to hasten their inevitable death. In prohibiting physicians from prescribing lethal medications by which such patients might hasten death, Michigan's ban on "assisted suicide" unconstitutionally imposes an "undue burden" on the exercise of that right.
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عنوان ژورنال: The Hastings Center Report
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0093-0334
DOI: 10.2307/3562062