Assisted Suicide in the United States
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Excerpt from Assisted Suicide in the United States: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session, April 29, 1996 The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 1 p.m., in room 2237, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Charles T. Canady (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Representatives Charles T. Canady, Henry J. Hyde, and Barney Frank. Also present: Keri D. Harrison, assistant counsel; Jacquelene McKee, paralegal; Mark Carroll, staff assistant; and Robert Raben, minority counsel. Opening Statement of Chairman Canady Mr. Canady. The subcommittee will come to order. Currently 35 States have statutes prohibiting assisted suicide. An additional 8 States recognize assisted suicide as a common law crime. These criminal prohibitions show the value States place on the protection of human life and the serious threat that assisted suicide poses to respect for life in the United States and to the safety of vulnerable persons. Compassion in Dying v. State of Washington and Quill v. Vacco decided by the ninth and second circuit courts of appeal, respectively, held that assisted suicide is a constitutional right for competent, terminally ill persons. On March 6, 1996, in Compassion in Dying, the ninth circuit found a liberty interest in determining the time and manner of one´s own death. The court held "that insofar as the Washington statute prohibits physicians from prescribing life-ending medication for use by the terminally ill who wish to hasten their own deaths, it violates the due process clause of the 14th amendment." In other words, the court decided that assisted suicide is a fundamental right. On April 2, 1996, in the Quill case, the second circuit court struck down New York statutes prohibiting assisted suicide as violative of the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. The court found that the New York law did not treat similarly situated persons alike. The court stated that "those in the final stages of terminal illness are allowed to hasten their deaths by the removal of such systems, but those who are similarly situated except for the previous attachment of life-sustaining equipment are not allowed to hasten death by self-administered prescribed drugs." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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