Bush Administration Appeals Over Oregon Suicide Law
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The Bush administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to uphold Attorney General John Ashcroft&#39;s power to stop Oregon doctors from helping terminally ill patients
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"In a statement published on the department's Web site, the head of its Office of Legal Counsel declares that "torture is abhorrent both to American law and values and international norms" and goes on to reject a previous statement that only "organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death" constitute torture punishable by law."  Thank god!  Now the only torture that applies under U.S. law is listening to Ashcroft sing  "Let the Eagle Soar".  Certainly a fate worse than Abu Ghraib.
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The widow of a man who had an assisted suicide says people should be able to choose how to die at home.
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By Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune  Sep. 15--The Bush administration expressed reservations Thursday about  key provisions of a bill, already opposed by environmental groups, aimed at  shaping the explosive growth in Washington County.
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Oregon&#39;s one-of-a-kind law allowing doctor-assisted suicide moved toward the ultimate legal test Tuesday when the US Department of Justice asked the Supreme Court to review a lower court decision that upheld the law.
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A local authority is asking the High Court if a chronically ill woman can be helped to travel abroad for an assisted suicide.
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An al Qaeda-led group in Iraq appealed to Americans on Thursday to reject the policies of President George W. Bush and issued a video apparently showing the remains of a U.S. pilot killed in a crash last year.
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President Bush demanded yesterday congressional action on legislation to rein in class-action, asbestos and medical-malpractice lawsuits, telling a White House economic conference that he would make changing the civil tort system a &quot;priority issue.
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The Bush administration has asked the United States Supreme Court to void Oregon&#39;s Death With Dignity Act. The Act was approved by Oregon voters in 1998, and more than 170 people have since used it to end their lives.
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The United States is seeking a full investigation into the death of 78 Thai Muslims in military custody after violent protests in the south of the country.
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President Bush issued a Christmas Day call for compassion toward the sick and suffering, urging Americans to volunteer to help the neediest among their fellow citizens.
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Suppose a person of reasonable mental competence decides, after carefully weighing the available options and consulting with those around him, that life is no longer worth living.  Should that person have the legal right to end their own life?  Suicide (and assisting suicide) is presently illegal in most western nations, a fact which only serves to make it slightly difficult for suicidal people to carry out their wish.  I propose a different approach - in fact, an opposite approach.  I propose that anyone who honestly wishes to terminate their own life should be provided with the means to do so humanely, reminiscent of (though perhaps more gentle than) the infamous suicide booths popularized by Futurama.
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The Justice Department asked the US Supreme Court Tuesday to hear argument on whether federal anti-drug law can trump Oregon&#39;s assisted suicide law.
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AS the Pacific Northwest debates the Bush administration&#39;s recent proposal to count hatchery fish alongside wild fish in applying the Endangered Species Act - and its new plan to cut
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The US Food and Drug Administration asked David Graham, who last month told a Senate committee that the agency fails to protect the public from dangerous medicines, to leave his position
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As a dubious going-away gift to the good people of Oregon, outgoing Attorney General John Ashcroft has asked the US Supreme Court to overturn an appellate court&#39;s upholding of Oregon&#39;s Death with Dignity Act.
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US President George W. Bush was &quot;saddened&quot; to learn of the death of Egyptian author and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate Nagib Mahfuz, the White House said.