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Other States See Path in Ruling on Oregon’s Assisted Suicide Law
c. 2006 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) When Oregon became the first state to legalize doctor-assisted suicide in 1997, backers hoped _ and opponents feared _ that others would follow.
None did. Oregon remains the only state where a doctor can legally prescribe a drug dose aimed a...
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Victories for assisted suicide law; Evangelicals grapple with immigration policy
In Wednesday's RNS transmission Jim Barnett reports that efforts to block the assisted suicide law will likely wither: Republicans control both chambers of Congress and likely could muster enough votes to block an Oregon law allowing physician-assisted suicide. But an apparent about-f...
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Assisted suicide ruling; Traffic evangelist
In Tuesday's RNS report Adelle M. Banks reports on reaction to the Supreme Court's assisted suicide ruling today: Advocates reacted with triumph and disappointment to Tuesday's U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding Oregon's physician-assisted suicide law, which touches on a variety of...
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Supreme Court Sides With State’s Right to Legalize Assisted Suicide
c. 2006 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ Advocates reacted with disappointment and triumph to a U.S. Supreme Court decision that continues the ethical debate on assisted suicide but keeps intact Oregon's law permitting the procedure.
In a 6-3 decision announced Tuesday (Jan. 17)...
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Justices Appear Split Over Doctor-Assisted Suicide
c. 2005 Religion News Service
WASHINGTON _ After 11 years, two referendums and a court case of four years, the fate of Oregon's experiment with doctor-assisted suicide remains in doubt as Supreme Court justices appear split over its potential to subvert federal authority.
Oregon's...
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Assisted Suicide Case Early Issue of Religion and Morality for Roberts Court
c. 2005 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) The first big case Chief Justice John Roberts and a reshaped U.S. Supreme Court take on this week comes with profound moral and religious questions: doctor-assisted suicide.
Political and legal attacks on assisted suicide have raged almost c...
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Suicides a Disturbing Undercurrent to Abuse Cases
c. 2005 Religion News Service
PORTLAND, Ore. _ A week before he died, Larry Lynn Craven called his lawyer, as he often did, to say that he could no longer live with the demons of his childhood sexual abuse.
``He had called me, crying and depressed and saying that he wanted to comm...
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Tramplings Have Killed Thousands at Massive Religious Events
c. 2005 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Stampede tragedies during recent mass religious celebrations:
_ Aug. 31, 2005: Nearly 1,000 Shiite pilgrims died during a religious procession in northern Baghdad when rumors of a suicide bomb caused a deadly stampede on a bridge.
_ Jan. 2...
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Protecting the weaker member
Carrie Gordon Earll of Focus on the Family Action
"This story is a poignant reminder that defending the value of life calls for sacrifice. Contrary to what we're tempted to believe, it's not all about us. Sometimes it's about the strong sacrificing for the weak. That's why this story...
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Counting all victims of terrorism
An editorial from the Jerusalem Post
"Even if near-daily shelling of civilians in southern Israel with rocket and mortar fire doesn't count for him (Pope Benedict XVI), then surely the suicide bombing which took five lives in Netanya earlier this month was no less reprehensible than w...
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