Welcome to ASFN Fan Forums! We're glad to have you here. Please feel free to browse the forum. We'd like to invite you to join our community; doing so will enable you to view additional forums and post with our other members.
Registered Members don't see these ads. Register now it's free!
View Poll Results: Should the federal government be allowed to set standards (i.e. trump states rights)
Should the federal government be allowed to set standards (i.e. trump states rights) when it comes to physician-assisted suicide?
The Supreme Court is reviewing the Oregon case to determine whether the federal government has the power to block doctors from helping terminally ill patients end their lives.
Quote:
Supreme Court hears Oregon's suicide law challenge
Seattle Times, United States
... Whatever the outcome of those efforts, one researcher says Oregon's assisted suicide debate has had the effect of raising public awareness about the need to ...
Registered Members don't see these ads. Register now it's free!
I voted no, for Constitutional reasons--but I think the more interesting question is under what circumstances (if any) should physician assisted suicide be legal. The right to privacy proponents have good S.Ct. case law supporting the notion.
That's exactly what they are trying to do with medical marijuana.
Right, they are wrong there too.
Let the States decide.
Unless the States are violating someone basic human rights the Feds should just stay out of it and stick to what they are authorized by the constitution to do.
__________________
“votes are collared under democracy, not by talking sense but by talking nonsense.” ~H. L. Mencken
Unless the States are violating someone basic human rights the Feds should just stay out of it and stick to what they are authorized by the constitution to do.
Isn't it odd that deciding to end your own life on your own terms is not a basic human right? After all, it's your life.
Isn't it odd that deciding to end your own life on your own terms is not a basic human right? After all, it's your life.
Yes, but I can see how it could be abused and someone could just kill someone off because they were inconvient or unwanted which I think is what the opponents fear. That and concers about the overall de-valuing of human life.
A close friend of my dad's died of cancer (in Oregon). He had fought so long and there came a point where he was just ready to die. He should be able to do that as quickly and painlessly as possible.
__________________
“votes are collared under democracy, not by talking sense but by talking nonsense.” ~H. L. Mencken
If they do, I am sure that I'll have to go see my regular doctor first, fill out a bunch of paperwork, get a referral to a specialist, and then I'll have to wait months for an appointment.
To top it all off, unless I opt for the generic equivilant of the lethal injection, I'll have to pay $50 for the poison.
It is more hassle than it is worth.
Here's another Oregon health related case from the Smoking Gun:
Physician assisted ___________ (fill-in your own malady)
Quote:
Lawsuit: Oregon doc prescribed sex for woman's back pain problem
OCTOBER 5--An Oregon woman claims that her former doctor prescribed sex with him as a treatment for lower back pain, according to a new lawsuit. In a Circuit Court complaint, an excerpt of which you'll find below, Susan Beach alleges that Randall Smith, an osteopathic physician, told her that there was "a medical need to manipulate a nerve in her vagina to help alleviate her lower back pain." These treatments began in June 2003 and ended seven months later after Beach mentioned the unorthodox care to her dentist, who was alarmed by Smith's behavior. Beach is seeking $4 million in damages from Smith and the medical clinic where he worked. Smith, who has claimed the patient sex was consensual, was stripped of his medical license in April for submitting phony reimbursement claims to the Oregon Health Plan. That criminal scheme cost Smith, pictured in the above mug shot, 60 days in jail.
Linear Mode
