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  • Assisted Suicide: Hayley, Riley, Andi, Eliz, Jennifer:3

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    John Andrew McVicker
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    This document summarizes key information about assisted suicide in Oregon. It discusses how in 1997, Oregon became the first state to pass a law allowing terminally ill patients to receive a prescription for lethal drugs to end their own life. The law, called the Death with Dignity Act, was intended to provide a more humane option for dying. It outlines how since 1997, 246 people in Oregon have used legal drug-assisted suicide. The summary also discusses how in 2001, the U.S. Attorney General challenged the law but the Supreme Court ultimately upheld it in 2005.

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    This document summarizes key information about assisted suicide in Oregon. It discusses how in 1997, Oregon became the first state to pass a law allowing terminally ill patients to receive a prescription for lethal drugs to end their own life. The law, called the Death with Dignity Act, was intended to provide a more humane option for dying. It outlines how since 1997, 246 people in Oregon have used legal drug-assisted suicide. The summary also discusses how in 2001, the U.S. Attorney General challenged the law but the Supreme Court ultimately upheld it in 2005.

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    Assisted Suicide: Hayley, Riley, Andi, Eliz, Jennifer:3

    Transféré par

    John Andrew McVicker
    This document summarizes key information about assisted suicide in Oregon. It discusses how in 1997, Oregon became the first state to pass a law allowing terminally ill patients to receive a prescription for lethal drugs to end their own life. The law, called the Death with Dignity Act, was intended to provide a more humane option for dying. It outlines how since 1997, 246 people in Oregon have used legal drug-assisted suicide. The summary also discusses how in 2001, the U.S. Attorney General challenged the law but the Supreme Court ultimately upheld it in 2005.

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    Hayley, Riley, Andi, Eliz, Jennifer :3

    (Hooooooray!)

    ASSISTED SUICIDE
    The Summary
     In 1997, Oregon enacted the first law in
    the country to prescribe a lethal dose of
    federally controlled drugs to terminally ill
    patients who wished to commit suicide.
     The Death with Dignity Act was intended
    to provide patients with an option to
    experience what some see as a more
    humane way to die.
     According to the law, a doctor cannot inject
    the drugs into a patient, but the patient may
    use the prescription to privately end their life.
     The law was passed in 1997, and since then,
    246 people in Oregon have committed drug-
    assisted suicide.
    Although…
     In 2001, Attorney General John Ashcroft
    threatened to punish any doctor who
    prescribed a lethal dose of drugs for the
    purpose of drug-assisted suicide.
     He argued that the law violated the
    Federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA)
    of 1971.
    Under the CSA, it would be illegal to prescribe
    controlled substances to end a patient’s life
     The case was appealed to the Supreme
    Court
    Gonzales vs. Oregon was heard in 2005
     It was upheld in the Supreme Court and still
    is intact today.
    Yuppers, this be the end of our
    presentation.

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