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Originally posted by bilmore
Find me anything that even suggests that this would be controversial if she had filled out the form,
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John Ashcroft and the United States have challenged up to the Supreme Court Oregon's law that allows doctors to administer lethal doses of painkillers to terminally ill patients who wish to end their lives. If the United States is making a facial challenge to such a law, it means that the federal government takes the position that even in instances where someone expressly wants to die and has jumped through whatever stringent procedural hoops the state has established, it is still not enough.
And, no, I don't buy the distinction between administering drugs and removing a feeding tube is irrelevant for these purposes--some people will continue to make it politically controversial for someone who wants to die by anything other than "natural" causes.
