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Jan 17 2006

Supreme Court Upholds Oregon’s Assisted Suicide Law

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In a 6-3 vote, justices rejected a Bush administration effort to punish doctors who help terminally ill patients die.

 

The court said the 1997 Oregon doctor-assisted suicide law trumps federal power to regulate doctors. The Oregon law has been used to end the lives of more than 200 seriously ill people.

 

The court rejected a Bush administration attempt to use a federal drug law to prosecute doctors for prescribing overdoses. Then-Attorney-General John Ashcroft said in 2001 that doctor-assisted suicide isn’t a "legitimate medical purpose."

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