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Rob Kailey is a working schmuck with no ties or affiliations to any governmental or political organizations, save those of sympathy.
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Thu Dec 31, 2009 at 13:38:52 PM MST
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The Montana Supreme Court just issued a decision that public policy of Montana does not criminalize, and much in current public policy affirmatively supports, aid in dying. The court did not reach the question of whether the Montana constitution specifically protects aid in dying. |
| Carla :: Breaking NEWS: MT Supreme Court upholds right to physician aid in dying! |
| In a detailed review of Montana law on the "Rights of the Terminally Ill," the Court concluded that the legislature specifically defers to a patient's own decisions and affords patients the right to control their own bodies at the end of life. The decision to self-administer life-ending medication receives the same treatment as a decision to discontinue life sustaining therapies such as mechanical ventilation. This is a landmark victory!
You can read the full court decision here.
This makes Montana the first state where a court has determined that patients may request, and physicians may legally provide, aid in dying. This is a historic ruling, which will change the landscape of end-of-life choice in Montana; in addition this decision will have persuasive influence in other states across the nation.
You can read the full press release from Compassion & Choices here.
Learn more about Baxter v. Montana at our website here.
Carla Axtman
Online Community Builder
Compassion & Choices
compassionandchoices.org
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