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.

[Cboldt]

This ruling will set the stage for the euthanizing of the baby boomer's once they become to big of a burden on their families.

Ooops ...

That stage is already, and better (IMO) set with the statutory model language of living wills advance care directives, in combination with court-provided construction of that language.

[GSlob]

Don't bible at me.

[kstewskis]

Before you know it suicides, assisted suicides will be happening more and no one will do anything about it!

"Assisted Suicides." The illness that has spread from Europe.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

So why have a line between physician assisted and non physician assisted suicide? I suppose if the people of Oregon decided it is okay then the Supremes would sign off on suicide in general.

I don't know. I need more information because I am torn. On the one hand, the people of Oregon can be stupid if they want to be. On the other hand, weakening the value of human life (and this does because it is too subjective) is a danger to all of us.

[BunnySlippers]

I am familiar with it ad nauseum.

[concerned about politics]

Before you know it suicides, assisted suicides will be happening more and no one will do anything about it!

They'll just be referred to as late, late, late term abortions.
I guess the socialist dictators in black feel the human herd needs more thinning.

[Brytani]

Having watched two people close to me die from terminal diseases, I have mixed feelings on this matter.

My Aunt had terminal cancer throughout her body. By the time she finally passed, she weighed 75lbs, was in an induced coma for pain and lived that way for months.

Another was a dear friend who died from the complications of AIDS (yes he was gay, sue me). After watching his skin slough off of his body, the incredible pain he was in, it would have been more humane for him to pass sooner.

A person being in sound mind, facing a few months to live, who makes the decision to end life-saving treatment to hasten death or who asks for an injection of medicine to end their life is one thing. An adulterous husband, a woman inconvenienced by a pregnancy or a third party making the decision for another person is another.

It is my understanding that the Oregon law does not allow for a their person to decide a person in sound mind should die. It only allows the patient, with medical agreement, to make the decision for themselves.

[conservative physics]

Tell that to Terri Schivo.

[OldFriend]

Breyer was the one dissent on the appeal of the death sentence for the California murderer. So he thinks it's okay to keep a murderer alive but he wants a sick patient murdered.

[daviscupper]

Don't get me wrong I love George Bush but he has made mistakes. He backed Specter in the primary against a real conservative. He nominated Meirs to the Supreme Court. He was able to undo one error but not the other.

[bvw]

She was a anchor around his neck. Good riddance, eh?

[Mr. Brightside]

It should be.

Yes, it will. It will be up to the states...

There is a difference between what 'should' happen and what 'will' happen.

[GarySpFc]

Ping

[steelcurtain]

Whatever happened to States Rights? I guess that whole concept is a sham , lip service used by so-called conservatives. All power to the federal government!

Sadly, you're correct. Some co-called conservatives still expect big government to tell everyone what to do, as long as it's what they think they should do. States' rights, individual freedom ... whatever.

[Halls]

Oh, so you don't believe in the Bible? cause I believe the Bible is God's word and that He is the creator and author of our lives, not us. You just don't want to hear the truth. We don't control our lives, God does. But good old man don't want to accept that and want to own their own lives. It never works, not in the end. God is in control. And some people don't want to believe that until they are faced with the truth on judgement day after they are dead.

[traviskicks]

Excellent news. It is always best to stand on the side of liberty, regardless of one's own views towards a given practice.

[Sols]

If they think their lives belong to any god, yours or otherwise, they can abstain from exercising this option. How easy is that?

[traviskicks]

libertarian ping

[alwaysconservative]

Brutally succinct, and completely appropriate!

[VRWCmember]

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

I was going to suggest that at least three current SC justices might qualify for application of this Oregon law, except for that last phrase requiring that they be of sound mind.