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Article: ASSISTED SUICIDE A RIGHT? THE ISSUE: SUPREME COURT HEARS ARGUMENTS ON ASSISTED SUICIDE OUR VIEW: WHETHER IT'S GOOD OR BAD POLICY, IT'S NOT A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT.(Editorial)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- January 8, 1997
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The case for physician-assisted suicide should be made in legislatures or by citizen initiative. It should not be asserted as a brand-new constitutional right.
This being late-20th century America, however, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments today that assisted suicide cannot be outlawed by the states - even though states have done precisely that for more than 200 years. Indeed, the claim that assisted suicide should enjoy constitutional protection is replete with logical inconsistencies and misstatements, perhaps because the advocates wish to evade certain realities and lack a convincing constitutional argument.
For instance, Laurence Tribe, a ...