Would a Supreme Court defeat end physician-assisted dying in America?
Every day in every state, when a dying patient suffering intolerable pain asks for and receives a doctor’s help in hastening death through legal medication, this is physician-assisted dying. Only Oregon strictly regulates and monitors this common practice. If the Supreme Court rules against Oregon, the practice will be forced underground, as in all other states, exposing dying patients to possible abuse or coersion and doctors to possible prosecution and imprisonment.
