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Oregon law allows physicians to assist the suicide of terminally ill patients to relieve their pain or, more commonly, to assuage their fears of being a burden or losing their dignity.(The Week ...)(Brief Article)
Oregon law allows physicians to assist the suicide of terminally ill patients to relieve their pain or, more commonly, to assuage their fears of being a burden or losing their dignity. When he was attorney general, John Ashcroft interpreted federal anti-drug laws to prohibit lethal prescriptions. Those laws allow drugs to be used for legitimate medical purposes, he reasoned, and poisoning is not among those purposes. The Supreme Court has now ruled that Ashcroft was wrong. By voting for assisted suicide, the people of Oregon had registered their view that killing patients is a legitimate medical ...
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