The Assisted-Suicide Decision - New York Times

The Assisted-Suicide Decision - New York Times: "Editorial
The Assisted-Suicide Decision

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Published: January 19, 2006

The Supreme Court smacked former Attorney General John Ashcroft and the Bush administration when it ruled 6 to 3 that the Justice Department had gone beyond its authority in trying to undermine an assisted-suicide law in Oregon. The only disquieting note was that the new chief justice, John Roberts Jr., who had assured senators that he believed people had 'the right to be let alone,' nevertheless joined the dissenters in arguing that the federal government had the power to block Oregon's pioneering effort to let terminally ill patients end their own lives humanely."