Assisted suicide, the due process clause and "fidelity in translation.
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The constitution and hastening inevitable death.
The due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects the right of terminally ill persons to hasten their inevitable death. In prohibiting physicians from prescribing lethal medications by which such patients might hasten death, Michigan's ban on "assisted suicide" unconstitutionally imposes an "undue burden" on the exercise of that right.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Fordham law review
دوره 63 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1995