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To: gao seng who wrote (261544)	6/6/2002 10:52:06 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Re: "If the cases are correct, then ALL states must allow physician assisted suicides". >>> I don't believe that is correct. My understanding was that these court cases have merely instructed that it is not inherently an area of Federal authority, but rather an area that remains under the State's authority to decide. >>> ...That does not mean that all State's must legislate the same way. "State's authority" implies that we could have 50 differing sets of regulation... or absence of regulation. >>> If, however, "two federal Courts of Appeals recently have ...construed the Constitution to ``discover'' a constitutionally protected liberty interest in physician-assisted suicide" as you say, that would be a new thing, I believe. One that I could agree with in practice, but a Constitutional theory about which I would have doubts.