Montana becomes 3rd US state permitting physician-assisted suicide
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Derek Humphry, Euthanasia, Final Exit, Hemlock, Politics/Law, RTD News, RTD Organizations, death, right to die on Dec 31st, 2009
The Montana Supreme Court said Thursday (12.31.09) that nothing in state law prevents patients from seeking physician-assisted suicide, making Montana the third state that will allow the procedure. Patients and doctors had been waiting for the state’s high court to step in after a lower court decided a year ago that constitutional rights to privacy [...]
