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Vacco v. Quill, 521 U.S. 793 (1997), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States regarding the right to die.It ruled 9–0 that a New York ban on physician-assisted suicide was constitutional, and preventing doctors from assisting their patients, even those terminally ill and/or in great pain, was a legitimate state interest that was well within the authority of the state ...
Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote the majority opinion for the court. His decision reversed the Ninth Circuit's decision that the ban on physician-assisted suicide was a violation of the Due Process Clause. The Court held that because assisted suicide is not a fundamental liberty interest, it was not protected under the Fourteenth Amendment.
The first significant drive to legalize assisted suicide in the United States arose in the early twentieth century. In a 2004 article in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Brown University historian Jacob M. Appel documented extensive political debate over legislation to legalize physician-assisted death in Iowa and Ohio in 1906.
A decade-long push to allow medically assisted suicide in New York has taken a spot on the list of state bills vying for approval in Albany before the legislative session ends in early June.
Lady Hale spoke ten years on from the 2014 Supreme Court ruling in the right-to-die case of Tony Nicklinson and Paul Lamb. Assisted dying debate needs to be sorted, former Supreme Court president says
Although the bill was introduced not long ago in Springfield, it has already gotten the attention of opposing organizations.
Karen Ann Quinlan (March 29, 1954 – June 11, 1985) was an American woman who became an important figure in the history of the right to die controversy in the United States.
The Minnesota Legislature kicked off debate Thursday on whether the state should join the list of those that allow physician-assisted suicide. The lead sponsor, Democratic Rep. Mike Freiberg, of ...