The constitution and hastening inevitable death.
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چکیده
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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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Hastings Center report
دوره 23 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1993