Issues in Law & Medicine articles from March 2000

Issues in Law & Medicine archives from March 2000

Hope Clinic vs. Ryan.(partial-birth abortion)
March 22, 2000... The issue was whether the state laws of Illinois and Wisconsin prohibiting partial-birth abortions are unconstitutionally vague or unduly burden women's rights. Acting without an evidentiary hearing, an Illinois district court held the Illinois...

Human cloning.
March 22, 2000... Position Paper of the Catholic Medical Association Catholic teaching on the dignity and uniqueness of every human person is founded upon biblical and natural truths that have guided our Western Civilization up to our modern era....

An open letter of the Dutch Physicians' League.(assisted suicide and abortion)
March 22, 2000... Urk, Thursday, October 14th, 1999 To The Second Chamber of The Parliament [Staten-Generaal] Attention of the Permanent Committee on Justice Mrs. M. Pe, LLM. P.O. Box 20018, 2500 EA, The Hague Ladies and Gentlemen, A Bill...

Judging Who Should Live: Schneiderman and Jecker on the Duty Not to Treat.
March 22, 2000... William Harper, Judging Who Should Live: Schneiderman and Jecker on the Duty Not to Treat, 23 J. MED. & PHIL. 500 (1998). In Wrong Medicine, Lawrence J. Schneiderman and Nancy S. Jecker conclude that any treatment for a patient who "lacks...

Will to Live in the Terminally Ill.
March 22, 2000... Harvey Max Chochinov et al., Will to Live in the Terminally Ill, 354 LANCET 816 (1999). A patient's state of mind is the single most important factor in understanding of a request for physician-hastened death. Euthanasia and...

The Oregon Report: Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
March 22, 2000... Kathleen Foley & Herbert Hendin, The Oregon Report: Don't Ask, Don't Tell, HASTINGS CENTER REP., May-June, 1999, at 37. In a public document, an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, a National Press Club briefing, and visits to...

Tube Feeding in Patients With Advanced Dementia.
March 22, 2000... Thomas E. Finucane et al., Tube Feeding in Patients With Advanced Dementia, 282 JAMA 1365 (1999). Patients with advanced dementia commonly develop difficulty eating, often when they become bedridden and dependent in all activities of daily...

Third Trimester Abortion for Fetal Abnormality.
March 22, 2000... Sjef Gevers, Third Trimester Abortion for Fetal Abnormality, 13 BIOETHICS 306 (1999). Developments in medical technology have increased the possibility of diagnosing severe structural abnormalities in the fetus. If these occur, a woman may...

A Critique of Three Objections to Physician-Assisted Suicide.
March 22, 2000... Dan W. Brock, A Critique of Three Objections to Physician-Assisted Suicide, 109 Ethics 519 (1999). In June 1997 the U.S. Supreme Court reversed decisions in the Ninth and Second Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals that had held that state...