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To: SoFloFreeper
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday 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.
Justices, on a 6-3 vote, said the 1997 Oregon law used to end the lives of more than 200 seriously ill people trumped federal authority to regulate doctors.
To: SoFloFreeper
3 posted on
01/17/2006 7:08:57 AM PST by
loreldan
(Lincoln, Reagan, & G. W. Bush - the cure for Democrat lunacy.)
To: SoFloFreeper
Sounds like Kervorkian is a free man...
4 posted on
01/17/2006 7:09:30 AM PST by
djf
(Bush wants to make Iraq like America. Solution: Send all illegal immigrants to Iraq!)
To: SoFloFreeper
And the culture of death continues its slow march forward.
To: SoFloFreeper
The God-given, unalienable right to life is dead in America.
The horrors to follow will not be pretty...
To: SoFloFreeper
this is a matter for the states
To: SoFloFreeper
Ruth Bader Ginsburg. More devastating than a tsunami, more tragic than a Hurricane, more destructive than a Earthquake.
Be AFFRAID, be very affraid.
To: PaxMacian; WindMinstrel; philman_36; headsonpikes; cryptical; vikzilla; Quick1; gdani; ...
So a doctor can help a patient die with lethal drugs, but can't help a patient live with medical marijuana. Go figure.
25 posted on
01/17/2006 7:17:28 AM PST by
Wolfie
To: SoFloFreeper
"One-of-a-kind" suicide law. Not for long.
To: Admin Moderator
The promised link: http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/politics/13645354.htm
Please put in the header. :)
To: SoFloFreeper
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.
To: SoFloFreeper
Even had Alito been seated, the decision would have been the same, but 5-4.
46 posted on
01/17/2006 7:25:05 AM PST by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: SoFloFreeper; oregon; abcraghead; aimhigh; Archie Bunker on steroids; bicycle thug; blackie; ...
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49 posted on
01/17/2006 7:26:58 AM PST by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: SoFloFreeper
Sounds like the right decision to me.
50 posted on
01/17/2006 7:27:13 AM PST by
Gone GF
To: SoFloFreeper
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.
To: SoFloFreeper
This bodes well for abortion then. The laws of life and death should remain with the various states.
65 posted on
01/17/2006 7:35:12 AM PST by
Raycpa
To: SoFloFreeper
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.
To: SoFloFreeper
State issue, I am uncomfortable with the feds being involved with everything. I believe abortion should be a state issue also.
Where states used to be individuals, we are all one big homogenous fed state now.
The voters of Oregon should change this if they want.
100 posted on
01/17/2006 7:47:56 AM PST by
eyespysomething
(Let's agree to respect each other's views, no matter how wrong yours might be.)
To: SoFloFreeper
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.
104 posted on
01/17/2006 7:48:14 AM PST by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
To: SoFloFreeper
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.
107 posted on
01/17/2006 7:48:54 AM PST by
Brytani
(Democrats - destroying America since 1868)
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