Calls to legalize physician-assisted suicide have increased and public interest in the subject
has grown in recent years despite ethical prohibitions. Many people have concerns about …

Medical professional codes have long prohibited physician involvement in assisting a
patient's suicide. However, despite ethical and legal prohibitions, calls for the liberalization …

Position statements opposing legalization of physician-assisted suicide by organizations
such as the American College of PhysiciansAmerican Society of Internal Medicine rightly …

Support for the participation of physicians in the suicides of terminally ill patients is
increasing, and the concrete effects on physician practice of a policy change with regard to …

The Supreme Court has ruled that states may prohibit physician-assisted suicide.
Expressing the views of his fellow justices, Chief Justice Rehnquist wrote," Americans are …

THE AMERICAN debate about whether to legalize physicianassisted suicide touches the
head and the heart of medical ethics. Participants have focused on moral philosophy or civil …

Surveys show that most Americans favor the decrimi nalization of phvsician-assisted suicide
in certain cir cumstances. Several states are now considering legisla tion to bring this about …

What I will discuss are two of the moral arguments that have been put forward as reasons for
objecting to the legalization of physician-assisted suicide. They have been taken seriously …

The debate over physician-assisted suicide has dramatically shifted to a discussion of
constitutional issues. This spring, within a month of each other, US Circuit Courts of Appeals …

In the Washington v. Glucksberg and Vacco v. Quill decisions rejecting a constitutional right
to physician-assisted suicide, the Supreme Court allowed each state to decide whether to …