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• Title: Brief Amicus Curiae in Robert Baxter Versus State of Montana.
• Author : Issues in Law & Medicine
• Release Date : January 22, 2009
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 264 KB

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In its ruling in Baxter v. Montana, (1) the District Court ruled that physicians who assist patients' suicides are protected from liability under the State's homicide statute. (2) The Court mistakenly relied on Oregon as a laboratory in which legalized assisted suicide has been tested and its results scrutinized. The lack of transparency in implementation of Oregon's "Death with Dignity Act" (3) renders Oregon an unreliable laboratory for assessing its social, economic and medical experiment with assisted suicide. The Oregon law's requirements, often referred to as safeguards, give a false impression of patient protection. The District Court failed to address the context in which assisted suicide would be carried out in Montana. The State already has the highest suicide rate in the nation, twice the national average. (4) So dire is the State's suicide rate that the legislature spends hundreds of thousands of dollars on suicide prevention programs. (5)

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