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Article: Editorials on Supreme Court's assisted-suicide decision.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune
- Article date:
- January 18, 2006
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The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Wednesday, Jan. 18:
SUICIDE AND STATES' RIGHTS
Oregon residents argued long and hard before they passed a 1994 initiative that allowed doctors to prescribe drugs to help terminally ill patients end their lives.
Both candidates for governor that year campaigned against the measure, as did the Catholic Church and the American Medical Association. The state's own medical association declined to vote on a resolution in support of the proposal because its membership was polarized.
Following this vigorous debate, the presumably well-informed people of Oregon voted, not once but ...