Supreme Court Upholds Oregon Suicide Law
The Supreme Court, with Chief Justice John Roberts dissenting, upheld Oregon’s one-of-a-kind physician-assisted suicide law Tuesday, rejecting a Bush administration attempt to punish doctors who help terminally ill patients die.
Justices, on a 6-3 vote, said the 1997 Oregon law used to end the lives of more than 200 seriously ill people trumped federal authority to regulate doctors.
From a Libertarian perspective this is the correct ruling for precisely the same reason Roe v. Wade was a bad ruling. It all concerns the 10th Amendment and states rights. Medicine is an area where the Federal government has no business legislating. The feds must allow states to make their own laws about both assisted suicide and abortion. Bravo to the six justices who voted to uphold the Oregon law.
