Concise Commentary on Recent Assisted Suicide Ruling
Wesley J Smith has produced an article which offers a concise review of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on the Oregon physician-assisted suicide statute. It had been widely reported in the media to be a “stinging rebuke” of the Bush administration. Closer inspection reveals that the ruling was not as monumentous as has been reported.
The case provided neither a sweeping assertion of the validity of assisted suicide nor a ringing endorsement of its legality being strictly a matter of state’s rights.