Supreme Court Cases

• Supreme Court Backs Oregon Assisted Suicide Law (2006)
  
• Oregon Assisted Suicide Law Upheld (2006)
  
• Supreme Court Holds Hearing on Assisted Suicide Dispute: Gonzales v. Oregon (2005)
  
• More on Gonzales v. Oregon (2005)
  
• Overview of 1997 U.S. Supreme Court Rulings
  
• Washington v. Glucksberg Supreme Court Ruling (1997)
  
• Vacco v. Quill Supreme Court Ruling (1997)
  

US Legislation on Assisted Suicide

• Analysis Of Washington Assisted Suicide Initiative (2008)
  
• Euthanasia & Assisted-Suicide Measures Proposed (2007)
  
• US Senate: Bill Introduced to Fight Assisted Suicide (2006)
  
• Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution Looks into Assisted-Suicide (2006)
  
• What the Oregon v. Ashcroft Lawsuit is About (October, 2002)
  
• Assistant Attorney General Statement on District Court Assisted Suicide Ruling (April, 2002)
  
• US Department of Justice: "Dispensing of Controlled Substances To Assist Suicide" (November, 2001)
  
• House Approves Pain Relief Promotion Act (October, 2000)
  
• Attorney General Reno Allows Assisted Suicide Law to Proceed (September, 1999)
  
• Anti-Assisted Suicide Bill Introduced (July, 1998)
  
• Congress to Vote (July, 1998)
  
• Lethal Drugs for Physician-Assisted Suicide (July, 1998)
  
• Statement by Alaska Representative Don Young (1997)
  

• Physican-Assisted Suicide Litigation, Legislation, and Developments from 1997 through 2007
  
• Euthanasia of Children (2007)
  
• A Family Affair
  
• Chain of "Suicide Clinics" Sought (2006)
  
• British Ethicist Calls for Legalizing Nonconsensual Euthanasia (2006)
  
• Euthanasia Laws Throughout World (November, 2005)
  
• Disability Group Will Rally Before Assisted Suicide Supreme Court Case (October, 2005)
  
• Status of Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia in the U.S. (Nightingale Alliance Website)
  
• Assisted Suicide Laws By State (July, 1998)
  
• Assisted Suicide Laws By State (c. 1990's)
  
• Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care (April, 2005)
  
• Terri Schiavo: Judicial Murder (March, 2005)
  
• Physican-Assisted Suicide Litigation, Legislation, and Developments from 1997 through 2004
  
• Attorney General: Controlled Substances Cannot Be Used For Assisted Suicide (November, 2001)
  
• Text of the International Task Force Amicus Brief in Oregon v. Ashcroft (1997)
  
• Civil Remedies to Prevent Suicide
  
• What's Wrong with Making Assisted Suicide Legal?
  
• Euthanasia: A Case of Individual Liberty?
  
• Targeting the Vulnerable by P.J. King, RN
  
• If Mercy Killing Becomes Legal
  

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  "Death solves all problems...no man, no problem." ... Joseph Stalin

  "We protest his hiring because Dr. Singer denies the intrinsic moral worth of an entire class of human beings - newborn children - and promotes policies that would deprive many infants with disabilities of their basic human right to legal protection against homicide." ... Princeton University student petition protesting Peter Singer's hiring.

  "I can understand at the individual level that in some cases you wish it was all over with, but the problem is as a society you have to choose what's going to be your norm." ... "We have this idea that what happens to me is nobody's business. The problem with euthanasia is it requires another person to do it, and it requires a complicit society to authorize it." ... Margaret Somerville, founding director of the McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law