A Decision of Life or Death

(17 January 2006 - RV) The United States Supreme Court today upheld the State of Oregon's one-of-a-kind physician-assisted suicide law. Justices, on a 6-3 vote, said that the 1997 Oregon law used to end the lives of more than 200 seriously ill people trumped federal authority to regulate doctors. None of the other 49 states has a similar law. We spoke to Joseph Meaney, Director of Coordination for Human Life International in the United States.