The state’s highest court has dismissed a case filed by three
terminally ill patients who sought a court order protecting their
doctors if they prescribed a lethal dose of medication to help them
die.
The plaintiffs asked the court to declare a constitutional right to
“aid in dying,” or as critics call it, assisted suicide. The three
patients in the original lawsuit filed in February 2015 — two have since
died — were mentally competent and terminally ill, and sought the right
to end their lives without undue suffering.
Thursday’s 81-page decision from the Court of Appeals found that the
state Legislature “has a rational basis for criminalizing assisted
suicide.” The Legislature has been reluctant to pass legislation to legalize aid in dying in recent years.
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Source: timesunion.com (via The Empire Report)
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