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Washington v. Glucksberg

Index Washington v. Glucksberg

Washington v. Glucksberg,, was a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously held that a right to assisted suicide in the United States was not protected by the Due Process Clause. [1]

29 relations: Act 39, Andrew Batavia, Article 13 of the Constitution of Singapore, Article 9 of the Constitution of Singapore, Assisted suicide in the United States, Bostic v. Schaefer, Cancer pain, Compassion & Choices, County of Sacramento v. Lewis, Due process, Euthanasia in the United States, Facial challenge, Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Gonzales v. Oregon, John T. Noonan Jr., Kathryn Tucker, Lawrence v. Texas, List of landmark court decisions in the United States, List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Rehnquist Court, List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 521, Obergefell v. Hodges, Oregon Ballot Measure 16 (1994), Poe v. Ullman, Principle of double effect, Right to die, Stephen Reinhardt, Vacco v. Quill, Washington Death with Dignity Act, Wesley J. Smith.

Act 39

Act 39 of 2013 established the U.S. state of Vermont's Patient Choice and Control at End of Life Act (Vermont Statutes Annotated Sec. 1. 18 V.S.A. chapter 113), which legalizes medical aid in dying (commonly referred to as physician-assisted suicide) with certain restrictions.

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Andrew Batavia

Andrew ("Drew") I. Batavia (June 15, 1957 – January 6, 2003) was a disability rights activist, health policy researcher, author, and associate professor at Florida International University who, at the age of 16, sustained a spinal cord injury.

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Article 13 of the Constitution of Singapore

Article 13 of the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore, guarantees a prohibition against banishment and the right to freedom of movement.

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Article 9 of the Constitution of Singapore

Article 9 of the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore, specifically Article 9(1), guarantees the right to life and the right to personal liberty.

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Assisted suicide in the United States

Assisted suicide is defined as suicide committed with the aid of another person, sometimes a doctor.

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Bostic v. Schaefer

Bostic v. Schaefer (formerly Bostic v. McDonnell and Bostic v. Rainey) is a lawsuit filed in federal court in July 2013 that challenged Virginia's refusal to sanction same-sex marriages.

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Cancer pain

Pain in cancer may arise from a tumor compressing or infiltrating nearby body parts; from treatments and diagnostic procedures; or from skin, nerve and other changes caused by a hormone imbalance or immune response.

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Compassion & Choices

Compassion & Choices is a nonprofit organization in the United States working to improve patient rights and individual choice at the end of life, including access to medical aid in dying.

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County of Sacramento v. Lewis

Sacramento v. Lewis,, was a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States involving police action in a high-speed car chase.

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Due process

Due process is the legal requirement that the state must respect all legal rights that are owed to a person.

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Euthanasia in the United States

Euthanasia is illegal in most of the United States.

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Facial challenge

In U.S. constitutional law, a facial challenge is a challenge to a statute in which the plaintiff alleges that the legislation is always unconstitutional, and therefore void.

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Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.

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Gonzales v. Oregon

Gonzales v. Oregon,, was a U.S. Supreme Court case in which ruled the Court held that the United States Attorney General cannot enforce the federal Controlled Substances Act against physicians who prescribed drugs, in compliance with Oregon state law, to terminally ill patients seeking to end their lives, often referred to as medical aid in dying.

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John T. Noonan Jr.

John Thomas Noonan Jr. (October 24, 1926 – April 17, 2017) was a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

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Kathryn Tucker

Kathryn Tucker (born 1959) is the executive director of the End of Life Liberty Project, which she founded during her tenure as executive director of the Disability Rights Legal Center.

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Lawrence v. Texas

Lawrence v. Texas,.

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List of landmark court decisions in the United States

The following is a partial list of landmark court decisions in the United States.

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List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Rehnquist Court

This is a partial chronological list of cases decided by the United States Supreme Court during the Rehnquist Court, the tenure of Chief Justice William Rehnquist from September 26, 1986 through September 3, 2005.

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List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 521

This is a list of all the United States Supreme Court cases from volume 521 of the United States Reports.

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Obergefell v. Hodges

Obergefell v. Hodges,, is a landmark civil rights case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in a 5–4 decision that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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Oregon Ballot Measure 16 (1994)

Measure 16 of 1994 established the U.S. state of Oregon's Death with Dignity Act (ORS 127.800-995), which legalizes medical aid in dying (commonly referred to as physician-assisted suicide) with certain restrictions.

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Poe v. Ullman

Poe v. Ullman,, was a United States Supreme Court case that held that plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge a Connecticut law that banned the use of contraceptives, and banned doctors from advising their use, because the law had never been enforced.

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Principle of double effect

The principle of double effect—also known as the rule of double effect; the doctrine of double effect, often abbreviated as DDE or PDE, double-effect reasoning; or simply double effect—is a set of ethical criteria which Christian philosophers, and some others, have advocated for evaluating the permissibility of acting when one's otherwise legitimate act (for example, relieving a terminally ill patient's pain) may also cause an effect one would otherwise be obliged to avoid (sedation and a slightly shortened life).

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Right to die

The right to die is a concept based on the opinion that a human being is entitled to end his or her own life or to undergo voluntary euthanasia.

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Stephen Reinhardt

Stephen Roy Reinhardt (born Stephen Roy Shapiro; March 27, 1931 – March 29, 2018) was a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, with chambers in Los Angeles, California.

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Vacco v. Quill

Vacco v. Quill,, is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States regarding the right to die.

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Washington Death with Dignity Act

Initiative 1000 (I-1000) of 2008 established the U.S. state of Washington's Death with Dignity Act (RCW 70.245), which legalizes medical aid in dying with certain restrictions.

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Wesley J. Smith

Wesley J. Smith (born 1949) is an American lawyer and author, a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism, a politically conservative non-profit think tank, best known for its advocacy of intelligent design (ID).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_v._Glucksberg

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