Criminal
Feb. 21, 2015
Finally joining the aid-in-dying crowd
Last week, three cancer patients and three physicians sued in superior court asserting that the state Constitution assures mentally competent, terminally ill patients the right to receive aid in dying. By Kathy L. Cerminara
The laboratory of the states is humming with experiments relating to aid in dying, and California just joined the crowd. In 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court encouraged development of aid-in-dying law in the states by acknowledging that America was "engaged in an earnest and profound debate about the morality, legality, and practicality of" aid in dying. Even as it refused to declare that the U.S. Constitution protected a citizen's ...
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