TheEnforcer
01-17-2006, 11:36 AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/17/AR2006011700435_2.html
By GINA HOLLAND
The Associated Press
Tuesday, January 17, 2006; 11:00 AM
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court upheld Oregon's one-of-a-kind physician-assisted suicide law Tuesday, rejecting a Bush administration attempt to punish doctors who help terminally ill patients die.
Justices, on a 6-3 vote, said that federal authority to regulate doctors does not override the 1997 Oregon law used to end the lives of more than 200 seriously ill people. New Chief Justice John Roberts backed the Bush administration, dissenting for the first time.
The administration improperly tried to use a drug law to prosecute Oregon doctors who prescribe overdoses, the court majority said.
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Long two page article but it's a damn good ruling.
By GINA HOLLAND
The Associated Press
Tuesday, January 17, 2006; 11:00 AM
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court upheld Oregon's one-of-a-kind physician-assisted suicide law Tuesday, rejecting a Bush administration attempt to punish doctors who help terminally ill patients die.
Justices, on a 6-3 vote, said that federal authority to regulate doctors does not override the 1997 Oregon law used to end the lives of more than 200 seriously ill people. New Chief Justice John Roberts backed the Bush administration, dissenting for the first time.
The administration improperly tried to use a drug law to prosecute Oregon doctors who prescribe overdoses, the court majority said.
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Long two page article but it's a damn good ruling.