Are Laws against Assisted Suicide Unconstitutional?

Hastings Center Report 23 (3):32-41 (1993)
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The Supreme Court, reluctant to find constitutional rights in areas marked by divisive social and legal debate, is not likely to constitutionalize a right to assisted suicide. The Court should cleave to the tradition of discouraging suicide and criminalizing its assistance.

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Is There a Right to Die?Leon R. Kass - 1993 - Hastings Center Report 23 (1):34-43.
Manipulated suicide.M. Pabst Battin - 1980 - Journal of Medical Humanities 2 (2):123-134.

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