We Americans have a habit of asking the wrong questions. Right now, the wrong question is whether the Constitution gives us a "right to die" and if so,, whether we are entitled to have our doctors’ assistance.
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Category Archives: Personal Autonomy
Ends and Means
My mother used to tell me that there is a right way and a wrong way to do things. It was her way of expressing the principle–much honored in the breach, I have since noticed–that the ends do not justify the means.
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Autonomy
The Star has asked if there is a constitutional right to die. But framing the issue in that way is misleading. There is no enumerated right to die. just as there Is no right to hold particular religious beliefs or to marry outside one’s race or to join a political action group.
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Whose Life is it Anyway?
Once again, the legislature has struggled with a bill containing amendments to Indiana’s "Living Will" law. This year, the House of Representatives (which killed the bill in prior sessions) has passed it by a comfortable margin. As I write this, those opposed to this legislation…
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