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.
It was the responsibility of the "innocent" Germans on the other end of the line to rise up against their tyrants and help us.
They said Congress could fix that problem.
This ruling is more about John Ashcroft than about the law or the Constitution. Plus, for 6 of the members, it was a chance to kill more people.
"In the sky"? What a bizarre statement.
Not defending toki, the bastard needed to die, the ones in oregon, well, they want to die because they are fixin to die. Some quite painfully. I do not think the USSC should mess with states rights, thats all. And by the way, the doctors are not administering the drug, only prescribing it on the patients wishes. In the end it is the patients decision.
Would seem you have no concept of what it means to operate an exceedingly large business with more employees on one tour than you can count to.
BTW, the state is involved in this sort of killing up to its gullet. After all, the practice of medicine and the dispensing of drugs are regulated by the state.
I've written a request to my HMO to make it possible for us to AVOID the services of any doctor, nurse or other employee who lived in Oregon at any time. Due to the actions of a few, the reputation of all are sullied beyond repair.
Certainly you have invited scorn. Liberal? Trashing? Government car? Subsidized housing?
You've earned it.
Especially for someone who lapped at the postal service trough for 30 years!
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If the physician knows what the drugs are intended to be used for, and of course he or she does in this situation or he/she wouldn't prescribe them, he/she is still morally guilty and in violaion of his/her oath no matter how the law is worded.
You may want to go back and read the last few paragraphs of Thomas' statement. Indeed he was calling out the majority opinion in Raich, but he also called into question the powers exhibited by CSA and the Attorney General. Scalia and Roberts did not (and Scalia's last paragraph put too much concern on precedent instead of a constructionist reading of the Constitution), or has less of a problem with it than Thomas.
"Lapped"? Wish that were so. Without getting into all the details, some of my most enjoyable hours involved reviewing cases and preparing decisions to collect vast sums of money from equities brokers who thought they could skimp on paying correct postage.
You do know, of course, that if this invisible person is under your bed it's most likely he's one of John Ashcraft's agents.
Brought to you by the same liberals who stage all nighters protesting the capital punishment of serial murderers.
What oath?!?
Hey, "all you cannibals," www.google.com says there are 215 cross-references to that expression.
What a world.
As reprehensible as assisted suicide is, I agree, it is a matter for the states.
Ha! Who cares? I'm not an equities broker and never want to be one.
Enjoy your Yugo (while I enjoy my sports cars). You're closer to the government teat than I am.
Yes, so many hypocrisies on display tonight...
To twist this into euthanasia, when euthanasia is expressly forbidden by the Oregon law, is to bear false witness to the situation...but I note that is a minor detail to many of the so-called "conservatives" who also claim to be "Christian."
Wonderful news. You can legally go to a doctor for help in killing yourself. But, don't light a cigarette downtown Portland because you will end up killing yourself.
Go figure.
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