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Euthanasia and the First Amendment
Physician-assisted suicide presents one of the greatest dilemmas to the
medical profession. Should someone who is mentally competent, but deemed
terminally ill, be allowed to engage in physician-assisted suicide?
According to the First Amendment of The Consti ....
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.... Davis, brought in
from Seminole County, “found that Florida's strict privacy law and the
equal protection clause in the U.S. Constitution entitled Hall, 35, and Dr.
McIver to carry out an assisted death without fear of prosecution” (Sun-
Sentinel, 1A). On February 11, 1997, Charles Hall's ruling was overturned
by the Florida Supreme Court: he no longer has the right to end his own
life. He will have to wait until May 9, 1997 until new arguments will be
heard. Hall, who has been deemed mentally competent, contracted the virus
in 1981 through a blood transfusion. “Some of the complica ....
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