Oregon Voters Adopt Nation’s First Physician-Assisted Suicide Law

Those of us who wrote Oregon's Death with Dignity Act are . . . terminally ill people who believe it is our right -- not the government's -- to decide when and how our lives should end. -Geoff Sugarman, Oregon Right to Die (1994) The Oregon Death with Dignity Act, a ballot initiative ostensibly enhancing the freedom of dying patients, is in fact a frightful license for physicians to prescribe death, free from outside scrutiny and immune from possible prosecution -- all in the name of a...