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.
I figure you support the former.
What horrors? The program has been going on for a while, with no abuses noted so far. I understand the dangers, but it seems the law was written pretty tight.
Stevens will never resign. He has been quoted as saying he is holding out for a dem president. He would have to die and since he still plays tennis and is very healthy for his age I doubt bush will get another appointment.
Ginsberg is the same way. She will never retire with bush there.
Kennedy is going to be the deciding swing vote for the liberals in all these cases. His decisions the last 5 years have been horrible. Remember last year when he reversed precedent on the death penalty for minors quoting international law.
Kennedy is also going to be the 5th vote in the texas redistricting case for the liberals.
What I don't like about Kennedy the most is that souter and breyer have his ear.
Too bad Kennedy isn't older so he could retire. It you could just get him off the court and put any decent kind of a conservative on it the court would have a dramatic difference.
The court as it is now with Kennedy going to be the swing vote is going to cause conservatives more misery.
The court that Bush is forming beginning with Roberts is starting to look good, at least in the area of restricted federal powers. Unfortunately, the decision supported other federal intrusions.
I wonder what Bush's personal opinion is? His AG prosecuted this, but his new chief justice presided over shooting it down.
This bodes well for abortion then. The laws of life and death should remain with the various states.
Arguable -- but that was not the basis for the decision.
The decision was the federal government does have jurisdiction to regulate this but the court's decision was that it was morally and legally OK if two doctors say it is.
In other words they did not rule on law but on values and opinion.
I agree with you. Whether or not the justices agreed with the idea of assisted suicide, the question is whether or not Oregon's law is constitutional. I think they made the correct call.
Donning flame retardent suit...
What the Supreme Court has just ruled is that the Federal government's authority is limited, just as our Christian Founding Fathers intended. The problem lies with the State of Oregon, not the United States, which has no business telling doctors what to do. Where in the Constitution do you see the "regulate doctors" clause?
Across the country, everyday, elderly and sick patients are given "extra" morphine, which stops the heart. We have an informal system of euthanasia, which is used at the families and doctors discretion. When you are going out the door, I have little to no problem with easing the transition.
Is the text of their decision posted?
It should be. There is no Constitutional provision for or against abortion. Roe v Wade should be overturned and the SCOTUS should rule that it is a matter for each State to decide.
There will be no horrors. It is a good libertarian decision.
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!
I support the decision here and am dissappointed with the "conservative" Scalia, Thomas, Roberts.
What hypocrites
Roberts dissented however.
Any body of authority, government or other, then bears a duty to recover the captives of that evil State, and to crush that evil.
This is common law. Predates Constitution, and the Constitution did not change it.
No, since the law in the state in which he was arrested did not specify assisted suicide.
Yes, it will. It will be up to the states ... it always should have been.
I agree....it's a matter for the States.
If we had Hillary health care, the government would.
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