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Article: U.S. Supreme Court rejects right-to-life appeal
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- January 14, 2008
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U.S. Supreme Court rejects right-to-life appeal
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- The Supreme Court has turned
away a right-to-life appeal, refusing dying patients' demand to try
promising but unapproved, experimental drugs that might save their
lives, according to the Los Angeles Times on Monday.
Instead, the court let stand the policy of the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA), which generally forbids doctors from treating
patients with experimental drugs, said the paper.
In September, lawyers for the Abigail Alliance petitioned the
Supreme Court, arguing that the Constitution gives dying patients a
right to try "potentially life-saving drugs."
The alliance said the court should give hope to ...