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SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS OREGON'S SUICIDE LAW
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Posted on 01/17/2006 7:07:26 AM PST by SoFloFreeper

BREAKING ON THE AP WIRE:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court has upheld Oregon's one-of-a-kind physician-assisted suicide law, rejecting a Bush administration attempt to punish doctors who help terminally ill patients die.


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To: Falcon4.0

Kennedy is the going to be the killer on that court.

I hate to say it but he is even worse than O'Connor.

Kennedy has moved even farther left in recent years.

Reagan should have picked another conservative after bork instead of picking that liberal kennedy from the 9th circuit.


Didn't even have to be someone as great as bork. Just a conservative.


41 posted on 01/17/2006 7:22:14 AM PST by johnmecainrino
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To: greasepaint
this is a matter for the states

Ok, state law trumps federal law if it is to kill human life, but state law does NOT trump federal law if it is to save human life.

Man, O man.

42 posted on 01/17/2006 7:22:23 AM PST by houeto (Mr. President, close our borders now!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

So does this mean attempted suicide would no longer be against the law? Obviously if someone actually commits suicide, it would be a moot point.


43 posted on 01/17/2006 7:23:26 AM PST by mlc9852
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To: houeto

That sums it up: the more disposable human life can become, the more liberals/Democrats celebrate. They must be partying big time at DNC.


44 posted on 01/17/2006 7:24:37 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: johnmecainrino

If Stevens and Ginsberg would resign in the next couple of months, it wouldn't really matter if Kennedy became a member of the Communist party. The amount of damage he could do would be severely limited.


45 posted on 01/17/2006 7:24:58 AM PST by old and tired (Run Swannie, run!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Even had Alito been seated, the decision would have been the same, but 5-4.


46 posted on 01/17/2006 7:25:05 AM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: EternalVigilance
I do question where the federal government has authority in this area. I'll be interested in reading the dissent, as Justice Thomas especially is usually suspicious of vague claims of federal authority.

This is a horrible law, but I have long thought the way to overturn it is to take it to the voters again after a lengthy period of voter education.

47 posted on 01/17/2006 7:25:28 AM PST by B Knotts
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To: mlc9852

Before you know it suicides, assisted suicides will be happening more and no one will do anything about it!


48 posted on 01/17/2006 7:25:51 AM PST by Halls (Dallas County, Texas, but my heart is in East Texas!)
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To: SoFloFreeper; oregon; abcraghead; aimhigh; Archie Bunker on steroids; bicycle thug; blackie; ...

Oregon Ping

Please notify me via FReepmail if you would like to be added to or taken off the Oregon Ping List.

49 posted on 01/17/2006 7:26:58 AM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Sounds like the right decision to me.


50 posted on 01/17/2006 7:27:13 AM PST by Gone GF
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To: EternalVigilance
The God-given, unalienable right to life is dead in America.

The horrors to follow will not be pretty...

You are so right EV! Sad day for America.

51 posted on 01/17/2006 7:27:55 AM PST by pollywog (Psalm 121;1 I Lift my eyes to the hills from whence cometh my help.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Seems like the supreme court is moving quick with these cases with o'connor still there.

Most legal experts thought the decision would come down next month.


The court heard parental notification on november 30. Now the dems want to delay on that as well.

O'Connor will be the 5th vote for the dems in that case.

Specter is a fool for not having the hearings start right after new year's.


52 posted on 01/17/2006 7:27:57 AM PST by johnmecainrino
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To: Iscool

The patient only. Then it must be "approved" by 2 doctors who testify that the patient has a terminal disease, has less than 6 months to live and is in sound mind to make the decision.


53 posted on 01/17/2006 7:28:40 AM PST by Brytani (Democrats - destroying America since 1868)
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To: EternalVigilance

**The God-given, unalienable right to life is dead in America.**

Constitutional law seems to be crumbling. I was sure this would not be upheld.


54 posted on 01/17/2006 7:28:52 AM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Halls
yep, they already kill most babies in the womb and sick people in commas, now they will start killing the sick people who are depressed because their relatives don't want to pay for them anymore, next it will be anyone older than a certain age, and followed soon after by anyone with a disability.

funny how we are starting to look as bad as the nazi's we defeated.
55 posted on 01/17/2006 7:30:11 AM PST by conservative physics
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To: Wolfie

Marijuana is not a real drug. You just want to get high. You're a stoner. Stoners are stupid. Stone the stoners.


56 posted on 01/17/2006 7:31:19 AM PST by Huck (Don't Vote: It only encourages them.)
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To: johnmecainrino
he's no fool, the RINO Specter is pro-death, he knows exactly what he is doing.

why in heck does the republican party allow rino's to sit on the judiciary committee !?!
57 posted on 01/17/2006 7:32:31 AM PST by conservative physics
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To: SoFloFreeper
Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the majority, said the federal government does, indeed, have the authority to go after drug dealers and pass rules for health and safety. But Oregon's law covers only extremely sick people -- those with incurable diseases, whom at least two doctors agree have six months or less to live and are of sound mind.

Crazy subjective double standard inconsistent reasoning and criteria for this murder.

Worst possible opinion.

It's OK to murder -- even though technically the US government can stop it legally -- but "experts" say it is OK -- two of them.

Recipe for disaster.

58 posted on 01/17/2006 7:32:32 AM PST by tallhappy (Juntos Podemos!)
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To: johnmecainrino
Kennedy is the going to be the killer on that court. I hate to say it but he is even worse than O'Connor. Kennedy has moved even farther left in recent years.

The real legal issue here is not assisted suicide, but the power of the federal government over the sovereignty of the states. Kennedy just had a conservative moment and sided with the states.

59 posted on 01/17/2006 7:33:17 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: SoFloFreeper
Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia dissented.

G-d bless them, and G-d save us!

60 posted on 01/17/2006 7:33:23 AM PST by bvw
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