Oregon Assisted Suicide Law Upheld by Supreme Court
The scope immediate impact for this decision is not obvious apart of course from the effect on Oregon. Nor is it clear how this decision interacts with SCOTUS' reversal several years ago of decisions involving physician-assisted suicide issued by the 2nd and 9th Circuit Courts of Appeals. We'll have to dredge up some lawyer to blog about that. Certainly there are plenty of bioethics experts ready to talk about the decision.
No surprise, the strategy of conservatives is beginning to gel, a shift to calls for concerted federal action by the experts on persistent vegetative state who rule the House of Representatives. The blue states meanwhile are likely to move toward more Oregonian positions on PAS.
[update: Womens' Bioethics Blog discusses this stuff today]