A Federal Court Declares Nation’s First Physician-Assisted Suicide Law Unconstitutional

"Oregon's Assisted Suicide Act withholds from terminally ill citizens the same protections from suicide the majority enjoys. In the process, it has lowered standards and reduced protections to a degree that there is little assurance that only competent terminally ill persons will voluntarily die. The majority has not accepted this situation for themselves, and there is no rational basis for imposing it on the terminally ill."  Lee v. State of Oregon, U.S. District Court,  Aug. 3, 1995....