Issues in Law & Medicine articles from June 1994

Issues in Law & Medicine archives from June 1994

The free exercise clause, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and the right to active and passive euthanasia.
June 22, 1994... One of the ironies of modern constitutional law is the number of establishment clause cases that forbid a form of speech or expression.(1) Similarly, much of the theorizing about the proper scope of the establishment clause proposes that...

Euthanasia and the Supreme Court's competing conceptions of religious liberty.
June 22, 1994... Euthanasia, or, as it is now called, the right to die, raises profound questions about the meaning and value of human life. Religious groups and religious views thus have been deeply involved in the law's continuing evolution on this subject....

Report of the Board of Trustees of the American Medical Association. (Transcript)
June 22, 1994... Subject: Euthanasia/Physician-Assisted Suicide: Lessons in the Dutch Experience Presented by: Lonnie R. Bristow, M.D., Chair Referred to: Reference Committee on Amendments to Constitution and...

Report of the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs of the American Medical Association. (Transcript)
June 22, 1994... Subject: Physician-assisted Suicide (Resolution 3, A-93) Presented by: John Glasson, M.D., Chair Referred to: Reference Committee on Amendments to Constitution and Bylaws ...