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Article: Alaska Supreme Court Unanimously Rejects Assisted Suicide.(Brief Article)
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- National Right to Life News
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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On September 21, 2001, the Alaska Supreme Court unanimously ruled that there is no state constitutional right to assistance in suicide. The justices joined the highest courts of Florida and Michigan in declining to find such a right in their respective state constitutions. In 1997 the United States Supreme Court unanimously concluded there was no right to assisted suicide in the U.S. Constitution.
NRLC General Counsel James Bopp, Jr., who is president of the National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, which filed a friend of the court brief in the case, said, "This decision drives a stake close to the heart of the movement to legalize euthanasia ...