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The constitutional case against permitting physician-assisted suicide for competent adults with "terminal conditions".
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Breathing life into the right to die: Oregon's Death with Dignity Act.
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Constitutionalizing death.
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Compassion in Dying v. State of Washington.
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Making sausage: The Ninth Circuit's opinion.
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Roe v. Wade and the euthanasia debate.
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Constitutional aspects of physician-assisted suicide after Lee v. Oregon.
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The Glucksberg & Quill amicus curiae briefs: verbatim arguments opposing assisted suicide.
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Assisted suicide and equal protection: in defense of the distinction between killing and letting die.
The author argues that the distinction between intentionally killing oneself and intentionally letting oneself die is both coherent "as a matter of principle" and morally relevant. This principled distinction then provides a benchmark for courts considering equal protection arguments to distinguish one patient seeking to commit suicide from another wishing to free herself of unwanted life-sustaining medical treatment, and to conclude that these two individuals are not similarly situated for purposes of the Equal Protection Clause. These two situations are morally distinct--the deaths are caused by different means and those involved have different intentions. The intention of the doctor and patient to hasten the patient's death is material, and the intention relates to understanding what it means to treat people equally. Doctors who participate in assisted suicide intend their patients to die by their own acts, i.e., intentional killing. The author concludes that those who ask their doctors to commit assisted suicide and those who forego treatment are not similarly situated for purposes of the Equal Protection Clause. The afterward comments on the Supreme Court's recent assisted suicide decision. It affirms the author's analysis.
Physician-assisted suicide and the Supreme Court: the Washington and Vacco verdicts.
In June 1997, the Supreme Court decided that statutes proscribing physicians from providing lethal medication for use by competent, terminally ill patients do not violate the Due Process or Equal Protection Clauses of the Constitution. The Court returned the question of physician-assisted suicide to the states, but did not foreclose future review of state laws that may be too restrictive of care at the end of life. The conceptual distinctions between assisted suicide, refusal of life-sustaining treatment, and administration of pain medication to terminally ill patients were endorsed as important guideposts for future analyses.
The phoenix of abortional freedom: is a penumbral or Ninth-Amendment right about to arise from the nineteenth-century legislative ashes of a fourteenth-century common-law liberty?
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Ordinance No. 24 amending Ordinance No. 9 of 27 July 1972 of the Ministry of Health for the implementation of the provisions relating to epidemiology of Law No. II of 1972 on health, 26 December 1988.
This Hungarian Ordinance amends Section 4 of Ordinance No. 9 of 27 July 1972 to read as follows: "1) Depending on their age, children shall be required to undergo vaccination against tuberculosis, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, poliomyelitis, measles, and rubella. 2) The age for administering the vaccinations referred to in subsection 1 and the methods to be employed shall be laid down by notice of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. 3) The following compulsory vaccinations are prescribed: a) for diphtheria, whooping cough, and tetanus--three vaccinations before the end of the seventh year of life and b) for diphtheria and tetanus--a fourth vaccination, together with vaccination against poliomyelitis, measles, and rubella before the end of the fourteenth year of life."