Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1996
ISSN
0028-4793
Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society
Language
en-US
Abstract
The debate over physician-assisted suicide has dramatically shifted to a discussion of constitutional issues. This spring, within a month of each other, U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals on both coasts ruled that state prohibitions of assisted suicide are unconstitutional when applied to physicians who prescribe lethal medication for terminally ill, competent adults who wish to end their lives. The Ninth Circuit includes Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington, and the Second Circuit includes New York, Connecticut, and Vermont. Both courts reached the same conclusion but for different legal reasons.
Recommended Citation
George J. Annas,
The Promised End: Constitutional Aspects of Physician-Assisted Suicide
,
in
335
New England Journal of Medicine
683
(1996).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/1258
Comments
From The New England Journal of Medicine, George J. Annas, The Promised End: Constitutional Aspects of Physician-Assisted Suicide, Volume 335, Page 683 Copyright ©(1996) Massachusetts Medical Society. Reprinted with permission.