Poll Question On Supreme Court Case Oregon Sucide Starting Today

[Jon8503]

Gonzales v. Oregon, 04-623 - September 22, 2005

RIGHT TO DIE
Reviewing whether the federal government improperly undermined Oregon's Death With Dignity Act by threatening doctors with revocation of their license to prescribe narcotic drugs if they assisted in implementing the Act
Oregon enacted its Death With Dignity Act to assist mentally competent, terminally ill patients in making end-of-life decisions. Reversing an earlier decision by Attorney General Reno, Attorney General Ashcroft then issued a directive stating that any doctor who prescribed narcotic drugs for this purpose risked the loss of his or her federal license. Oregon sued, and the Ninth Circuit ruled that the Attorney General had exceeded his authority under the federal Controlled Substances Act. The ACLU amicus brief supports that ruling, arguing that a contrary conclusion would raise serious constitutional issues about the government's ability to interfere with such personal choices.

ACLU Amicus Brief (PDF) PRESS

Question basically is does the federal government have the right to interfere in a doctor & patient relationship in prescribing drugs to facilitate death or you can say states rights vs federal rights as Oregon had a law allowing doctors to do this. Yes or No

[me b zola]

1. Maybe I am missing it, but I don't see a question in your poll

:shrug:

[me b zola]

2. The hypocracy of the rw (again)

As I flinch everytime I hear a winger say that a judge "shouldn't legislate from the bench", we all know that they are drooling over the prospect of not only legislating from the bench, but perverting our Constitution into some unrecognizable document.

The rw continued attacks on laws passed by the people, assisted suicide and medical marijuana, are just previews of how the conservatives plan to legislate from the bench.