The Court Upholds a State Law Prohibiting Physician-Assisted Suicide

The court upholds a state law prohibiting physician-assisted suicide.

Appeal court upholds Oregon's assisted suicide law.

not statistically significant. Women who took ibuprofen also had a lower risk of breast cancer than control patients, but the reduction was less than in women taking aspirin. Paracetamol had no effect. Aspirin reduced the risk of breast cancer in premenopausal women and postmenopausal women, but the effect was more pronounced in postmenopausal women because there were more of them in the study....

The constitutionality of statutes prohibiting and permitting physician-assisted suicide.

Physician-assisted suicide: a common law roadmap for state courts.

Part I examines the development of the law legalizing passively hastening death and how this development relied significantly on distinguishing passively hastening death from actively hastening death. Part II subjects the arguments used to legitimate passively hastening death to a traditional criminal law analysis and demonstrates their weaknesses which were simple to conceal when there was lit...

The Supreme Court and physician-assisted suicide--the ultimate right.

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide later this year whether to let stand decisions by two appeals courts permitting doctors to help terminally ill patients commit suicide. The Ninth and Second Circuit Courts of Appeals last spring held that state laws in Washington and New York that ban assistance in suicide were unconstitutional as applied to doctors and their dying patients. If the Supreme Cou...