On the assisted suicide Wikipedia page, I plan to give a neutral summary of the Washington vs. Glucksberg case, which was a federal court case. This case was brought fourth by three doctors and three terminally ill patients who believed that the law that disallowed assisted suicide in Washington was unconstitutional. The supreme court decided that the ban was not unconstitutional, and that it would stay in place.
a more in depth history of the way that physician assisted death came to be legal in certain countries, would be very crucial to add to the page.
Assisted suicide is a very controversial topic, and has not always been legal in the 6 U.S. states that it is now legal in. In Washington, it did not become legal until 2008[1]. In 1997, four Washington physicians, and three deathly ill patients brought forth a lawsuit that would challenge the ban on physician assisted suicide that was in place at the time. This lawsuit was first part of a district court hearing, where it ruled in favor of Glucksberg[2], which was the group of physicians and terminally ill patients. The lawsuit was then affirmed by the ninth circuit[3]. Thus, it was taken to the supreme court, and there the supreme court decided to grant Washington certiorari. Eventually, the supreme court decided, with a unanimous vote, that physician assisted suicide was unconstitutional[4]. we see that the laws and arguments on this topic of physician assisted suicide, is often argued and changed depending on legal evaluation and decision.
Parnia's Comments
1) This sounds like a good start but I would start formulating your paragraph and provide a source.
2) Mention if this set a precedent or what precedent court case there was prior to this.
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- ^ "Washington v. Glucksberg | Vacco v. Quill". www.adflegal.org. Retrieved 2016-11-12.
- ^ "Case Brief: Washington v. Glucksberg, 521 U.S. 702". www.studentjd.com. Retrieved 2016-11-12.
- ^ linderd. "Washington v Glucksberg". law2.umkc.edu. Retrieved 2016-11-12.
- ^ "Wiki Education Foundation Dashboard". dashboard.wikiedu.org. Retrieved 2016-10-15.