Oregon’s Slippery Slope on Assisted Suicide – What it Means for Other States
By Jennifer Popik, J.D. Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act, a first-of its kind law, has been in effect since 1997. Essentially, the law permits physicians to prescribe lethal medications to patients who meet a set of loosely-defined requirements including being terminally ill, competent at the time of the request, and a few others. These so-called safeguards …
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