Posted on 01/17/2006 7:07:26 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
BREAKING ON THE AP WIRE:
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court has upheld Oregon's one-of-a-kind physician-assisted suicide law, rejecting a Bush administration attempt to punish doctors who help terminally ill patients die.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Oregon's one-of-a-kind physician-assisted suicide law, rejecting a Bush administration attempt to punish doctors who help terminally ill patients die.
Justices, on a 6-3 vote, said the 1997 Oregon law used to end the lives of more than 200 seriously ill people trumped federal authority to regulate doctors.
How did Roberts vote?
Sounds like Kervorkian is a free man...
No word on the vote yet...stand by.
That's what I want to know. Who voted how?
Who are the three? Scalia, Thomas, Roberts?
And the culture of death continues its slow march forward.
Don't know...when it crosses, I'll let you know.
How did that happen when there are only 8 members currently sitting on the Supreme Court?
O'Connor hasn't officially retired yet.
I think O'Connor is staying on until her replacement is seated.
o'connor is still there until alito is installed.
Sandy's still hanging on
I think O'Connor is still on. She doesn't officially leave until someone replaces her.
The God-given, unalienable right to life is dead in America.
The horrors to follow will not be pretty...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Oregon's one-of-a-kind physician-assisted suicide law, rejecting a Bush administration attempt to punish doctors who help terminally ill patients die.
Justices, on a 6-3 vote, said the 1997 Oregon law used to end the lives of more than 200 seriously ill people trumped federal authority to regulate doctors.
That means the administration improperly tried to use a federal drug law to prosecute Oregon doctors who prescribe overdoses. Then-Attorney General John Ashcroft vowed to do that in 2001, saying that doctor-assisted suicide is not a "legitimate medical purpose."
Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the majority, said the federal government does, indeed, have the authority to go after drug dealers and pass rules for health and safety.
But Oregon's law covers only extremely sick people -- those with incurable diseases, whom at least two doctors agree have six months or less to live and are of sound mind.
this is a matter for the states
Kevorkian is jailed in Michigan.
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