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Euthanasia and the First Amendment
Physician-assisted suicide presents one of the greatest dilemmas to the
medical profession. Should someone who is mentally competent, but deemed
terminally ill, be allowed to engage in physician-assisted suicide?
According to the First Amendment of The Constitution of The United States,
one has the freedom to petition the government for a redress of
grievances ....
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.... a Judge ruled that Charles Hall could take his own
life with the aid of a doctor. Senior Judge S. Joseph Davis, brought in
from Seminole County, found that Florida's strict privacy law and the
equal protection clause in the U.S. Constitution entitled Hall, 35, and Dr.
McIver to carry out an assisted death without fear of prosecution (Sun-
Sentinel, 1A). On February 11, 1997, Charles Hall's ruling was overturned
by the Florida Supreme Court: he n ....
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