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SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS OREGON'S SUICIDE LAW
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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.
TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Oregon
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To: Fishtalk
Maybe you should look at the actual law being ruled on, instead of invoking your own imagination.
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posted on
01/17/2006 9:04:12 AM PST
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
To: djf
NY V US, 505 US 144 What was that about? I tried to look it up, didn't yield much.
302
posted on
01/17/2006 9:04:30 AM PST
by
La Enchiladita
(Taking a stand and speaking up imperil one's health, but friends false and true are thereby known.)
To: antiRepublicrat
I haven't looked, but how much you want to bet the hospice industry is against this law?
I think you'd be wrong. They are in the business of end-of-life comfort.
303
posted on
01/17/2006 9:05:22 AM PST
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
To: mosquitobite
In a way, the Supremes are between a rock and a hard place. It will be interesting to see how this turns out.
304
posted on
01/17/2006 9:05:29 AM PST
by
djf
(Bush wants to make Iraq like America. Solution: Send all illegal immigrants to Iraq!)
To: Bushbacker
Yes and one of those is the right to life - meaning that you, not the government, can decide what to do with your life.
If you are ill and want to end your life, you have that right.
To: Jim Noble
Kevorkian is in Michigan, this was Oregon.
To: Founding Father
What else can he do? The Court is already so politicized.
307
posted on
01/17/2006 9:06:31 AM PST
by
La Enchiladita
(Taking a stand and speaking up imperil one's health, but friends false and true are thereby known.)
To: Beelzebubba
Exactly. The frothing small-mind folks don't know the difference, and "know" the decision is bad, just because of who decided it. My initial reaction is "blame the doctors," because without their professional opinion that suicide is a legitimate medical procedure (at the wish of the patient), the majority ruling in this case loses its very foundation.
I'm generally put off by the notion that law is the solution for all.
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posted on
01/17/2006 9:06:34 AM PST
by
Cboldt
To: little jeremiah
You really think that individual states have the right to allow people to be killed, as in abortion, or the fake suicide which is really euthanasia?If Roe vs Wade were overturned today, you could still get an abortion in most states.
309
posted on
01/17/2006 9:07:19 AM PST
by
Raycpa
To: Halls
The disobedience to God you describe is not punishable under United States law. Really, I've checked.
To: Fishtalk
Hey, I'm pretty sure that already you can recite more of the DOI than most people, so that's something! ;)
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posted on
01/17/2006 9:07:24 AM PST
by
Sols
To: Bushbacker
Our government IS based on the concept of Unalienable Rights given to us by the Creator There you go. And that includes the inalienable right to shoot yourself in the head. There's no inalienable right to have the government provide the means. It's a culture of life thing.
Keep an eye on Oregon. Soon enough they'll be killing everybody. People will be flying in from across the planet. Pizza huts will spring up along the highways. Of course there will be a need for quality hotels/short term lease apartments.
I used to be a liberal. I can see right where this is going.
To: Borges
"You don't have to be religious to be Conservative."
Not according to quite a few on FR. Not only do you have to be religious, you have to be Christian to be a real conservative. You'd better shape up.
313
posted on
01/17/2006 9:07:49 AM PST
by
Gone GF
To: Pyro7480
Well, does the Federal government own you or not?
314
posted on
01/17/2006 9:07:56 AM PST
by
Hank Rearden
(Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Scotus BlogDissenting, along with Roberts, were the Court's two most conservative members, Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. Scalia, in an opinion joined by the other two dissenters, said the Court distorted the Controlled Substances Act and disregarded "settled principles" on how to interpret statutes. Thomas, in a separate opinion speaking only for himself, accused the majority of making a constitutional decision "under the guise of statutory interpretation."
At first glance, the idea that this will help abortion because of the "it's a state's right" idea is faulty. The majority led by Kennedy made this about police powers and the federal government's right to intervene in state's medical (medicinal) practices.
315
posted on
01/17/2006 9:08:28 AM PST
by
cgk
(I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)
To: Sols
I can still recite the preamble to the Constitution! As can most of us who grew up watching Schoolhouse Rock on Saturday mornings. : )
316
posted on
01/17/2006 9:08:37 AM PST
by
TheBigB
("Pitts. has no chance indoors against Indy. NONE."~~maineman)
To: Borges; Halls
Amen Borges! :) pun intended.
317
posted on
01/17/2006 9:08:57 AM PST
by
mosquitobite
(As the Iraqis stand up, we will stand down.)
To: Fishtalk
I don't agree that it has anything to do with personal "entitlement," but everything to do with personal "responsibility."
If you want to end your life, don't put the responsibility on doctors and "laws" to carry it out. Just do it.
318
posted on
01/17/2006 9:09:03 AM PST
by
La Enchiladita
(Taking a stand and speaking up imperil one's health, but friends false and true are thereby known.)
To: Gone GF
Not according to quite a few on FR. Not only do you have to be religious, you have to be Christian to be a real conservative. And not just a Christian, but a snakefondling fundamentalist evangelical nutball Christian. Or else you're going to Hell with all those people having fun in Las Vegas and probably elsewhere.
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posted on
01/17/2006 9:09:42 AM PST
by
Hank Rearden
(Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
To: La Enchiladita; Founding Father
I think Roberts knew he needed to side with Thomas and Scalia no matter what. ;) At least until Alito is confirmed LOL
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posted on
01/17/2006 9:10:01 AM PST
by
mosquitobite
(As the Iraqis stand up, we will stand down.)
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