|
|
Article: Whatever Happened to... the Case Regarding Terminally Ill Patients?
- Article from:
- Pharmaceutical Technology
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright Advanstar Communications, Inc. Mar 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
|
In Pharmaceutical Technology's October 2007 issue, we wrote "Who's In Charge?"about a decision by the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (Abigail Alliance v. Andrew Von Eschenbach), which stated that the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment does not extend to terminally ill patients who seek experimental drugs.The Abigail Alliance for Better Access to Developmental Drugs had argued that due process should protect "persons in mortal peril"to"try to save their own lives."The Court rejected that argument.
Since that time, the alliance, along with the Washington Legal Foundation,filed a petition for a writofcertiorari.They asked the US Supreme Court to reinstate a 2006 ...