How Constitutional Is The Right To Privacy?
As we plod through the morass of murky thinking on the question of what is euphemistically phrased as “assisted suicide”, or “medicide” or other high sounding phrases that becloud the essential truth, one and only one question must be held in primary focus: Who has the right to kill? Who is licensed to take away a human life? A Michigan Circuit Judge, Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Cynthia Stephens, provides us with an example of loosy-goosy thinking. In her decision to strike down the Michigan Legislature’s law against assisted suicide she newly discovered yet another “right” to privacy in the United States Constitution, the right to kill one’s self. And having discovered that, she discovers yet another one, namely the “right” to have that “private” decision reinforced by an assistant. Her opinion exemplifies the rush of some jurists to unearth newly found privacy rights flowing from the horrendously illogical decision in the Roe v. Wade abortion ruling. Legal scholars still shudder
