Physician-assisted suicide. Legal rulings skirt around ethics of aid-in-dying.
Kevorkian's acquittal of violating Michigan's assisted-suicide ban and a federal court's ruling that Washington state's ban on assisted suicide is unconstitutional say more about the inability of the judicial process to provide clear guidance through ethical quagmires than they do about ethical issues at hand, as the following articles explain.
D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005065:Euthanasia / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D008824:Michigan; D009518:New York; D010819:Physician's Role; D017236:Suicide, Assisted / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States; D014861:Washington