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The race was not called until more than a week after Election Day, with 50.4 percent of the vote in favor of the constitutional amendment, which bans "the practice of medically assisted suicide ...
In the context of assisted suicide, what West Virginia voters just did might seem redundant. As an article in The Review explains , medically assisted suicide was “already illegal in the state.”
Assisted suicide in the United States was brought to public attention in the 1990s with the highly publicized case of Dr. Jack Kevorkian. Kevorkian assisted over 40 people in dying by suicide in Michigan. [12] His first public assisted suicide was in 1990, of Janet Adkins, a 54-year-old woman diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease in 1989.
Medical aid in dying (also known as assisted suicide, physician-assisted suicide, and assisted dying), is a medical practice in which a physician indirectly assists another person to end their own life. It involves a physician "knowingly and intentionally providing a person with the knowledge or means or both required to commit suicide ...
Glucksberg [57]) statutes that made physician-assisted suicide a felony violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. [58] In a unanimous vote, the Court held that there was no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide and upheld state bans on assisted suicide.
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As of mid-January, in hard-hit West Virginia, there are just 235 doctors who are certified to dispense buprenorphine, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. There are 183 in Nevada, 89 in Arkansas and 60 in Iowa. In all of Texas, a state of roughly 27 million people, there are only 1,046 doctors certified to prescribe the medications.
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...