SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS OREGON'S SUICIDE LAW

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[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.

[gondramB]

"How did Roberts vote?"

Yeah, we need the box score on this one.

[Bushbacker]

Our government IS based on the concept of Unalienable Rights given to us by the Creator..

[Fishtalk]

legislation involving the planned implementation of death

Here I am answering my own self, isn't that pathetic?

But I'm thinking the above might eliminate the death penalty.

Not that it matters, heh, cause the Judges didn't listen to me.

But if we haven't seen the damage liberals can do when they have this kind of crap to work with then again, maybe it's me. I'm betting this won't be the last assisted suicide case the Judges will be ruling on.

Give it time. Chip by chip, chip by chip.

First, a really old termnally ill person who can't talk. Next case, a person in such despair that he's threatening to kill others around him. Next case, a badly brain-damaged child who cries constantly and must be miserable.

Given time, they'll be a whole list of ways to legally kill yourself. then the criminals will get involved. Say I go into my own business setting up a legal way for YOUR wife to kill herself.? I give a couple of corrupt doctors some bucks, they sign the form. I find me a really corruptable doctor and lie, say this guy's wife screams in pain constantly. Then we find a way to make this guy's wife scream in pain...or moan, whatever. American ingenuity is world renowned.

Kill your damn self. It's possible. Where there's a strong enough will there's a way. Yeah I know there's a bunch of exceptions to the rule, but I'd argue not as many as you think.

Don't give the liberals an inch is what I'm saying here.

[Chuck54]

Agree. I don't wish to stay alive if terminally ill. Quantity of life should never be allowed to trump quality of life.

I'm 61 years old and in good health, considering, so yes this could affect me in the next couple of decades. I certainly don't want some quack doctor deciding for me but as long as I'm in charge of my life, please leave some decisions to me and not the fricking government. Cradle to grave care doesn't excite me.

Jeez!

[tx_eggman]

We don't control our lives, God does

Bad theology ... or you're nothing more than a marionette.

Me, my God gave me a free will.

[Borges]

You don't have to be religious to be Conservative.

[gondramB]

""One-of-a-kind" suicide law. Not for long."

There may be some other mechanism that could be used. The constitution doesn't take away the right to regulate medecine from the states - this is a state's rights issue. There may be other legal avenues that don't violate state's rights.

[Borges]

However that's not in the Constitution which states that our rights come from 'We The People'.

[antiRepublicrat]

Being on life support for years after a MVA is a lot more costly to insurance companies than suicide.

You mean insurance companies will pay out maybe $200,000 to families in life insurance rather than pay a million to the health care industry to keep that person alive? I haven't looked, but how much you want to bet the hospice industry is against this law?

[TKDietz]

Just because you have a right to do something doesn't mean you have to do it. Of course we have a right to life, but that is our right. My right to life is mine. If someone is terminally ill and in great pain and they wish to go ahead and die rather than endure several more months of the same agony, then they should be allowed to do just that. This is not a right to life issue.

[Pyro7480]

And what "conservative test" is that - Federal ownership of our bodies?

Hmmm, that argument is familiar. The NOW gang uses that to support abortion. Is Free Republic now ultra-libertarian and/or feminist now?

[Halls]

Sure God gave us free will, but He is also has laws for us to go by and if we choose not to than we are disobeying Him.

[K-oneTexas]

Must mean that the States have rights under the Constitution.

[Not A Snowbird]

Thank you! Bump for later reading.

[linda_22003]

All these supposed citations to "the constitution" are pathetic. WHEN are they going to start teaching civics again?

[Fishtalk]

Hey, I'll stand up tall and proud and say I really thought that was in the constitution.

So shoot me.

I've been corrected, and very surprised, and I appreciate the correction. Way I figger, if I got mixed up on that, yea somebody who participates regularly on a web site that is about freedom, etc, then I bet plenty of people do.

Now the rest of you can go on with the beatings followed by pats on the back at how smart you are, or you can smile and say you were glad to help.

I really am glad to know this, btw. And now that it was mentioned, give me a little credit, I do recall it was the first words in the DOI.

[Hank Rearden]

I am stunned the courts allowed euthanasia. God help us, because it's obvious we need more Godly judges.

Yeah, that's what we need - a theoracracy. It works so well in Iran and Saudi Arabia. Maybe we should derive our basis of law from those "Godly" plastic-haired, snakefondling moneygrubbers on TV, huh?

The court finally shows some sense, no thanks to Roberts, Scalia and Thomas. The Big Stupid Government does not own us, and this ruling is a small recognition of that fact.

[Jim Noble]

Sounds like Kervorkian is a free man...

The Oregon law is profoundly misguided IMO, but it would not free Kervorkian. What he did was simple serial murder, had nothing at all to do with end-of-life clinical decisions, he was rightly convicted, and he would be in prison in Oregon, as well as anywhere else.

[OPS4]

I do not believe any government local or federal has a right to legislate the taking of life.

Gods law is clear, Thou shalt not Kill. That does not come with a caveat, for suicide.

Ops4 God Bless America!