TAILIEUCHUNG - Gale Encyclopedia Of American Law 3Rd Edition Volume 4 P28

Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 4 P28 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | EUTHANASIA 259 Ct. 2258 138 L. Ed. 2d 772 65 1997 three terminally ill patients four physicians and a nonprofit organization brought action against the state of Washington for declaratory judgment that a statute banning assisted suicide violated due process clause. on june 26 1997 the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the right of states to prohibit assisted suicide holding 1 asserted right to assistance in committing suicide is not a fundamental liberty interest protected by due process clause and 2 Washington s ban on assisted suicide is rationally related to legitimate government interests. In Vacco v. Quill 521 . 793 117 S. Ct. 2293 138 L. Ed. 2d 834 1997 physicians challenged the constitutionality of New York statutes making it a crime to aid a person in committing suicide or attempting to commit suicide. The Supreme Court held that New York s prohibition on assisting suicide did not violate the equal protection clause of the FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT. Involuntary Euthanasia The term involuntary euthanasia is used to describe the killing of a person who has not explicitly requested aid in dying. This term is most often used with respect to patients who are in a persistent vegetative state and who probably will never recover consciousness. Euthanasia Considerations Euthanasia is a divisive topic and different interpretations of its meaning practice and morality abound. Those who favor active euthanasia and a patient s right to die do not acknowledge a distinction between active and passive euthanasia. They assert that the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment cannot be distinguished in principle from affirmative steps to hasten a patient s death. In both situations they argue a person intends to cause the patient s death acts out of compassionate motives and causes that single outcome. In their view turning off a life-sustaining respirator switch and giving a lethal injection are morally equivalent actions. opponents of active euthanasia argue that it undermines

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