{"id":759,"date":"2005-02-23T18:05:48","date_gmt":"2005-02-23T18:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=759"},"modified":"2005-02-23T18:05:48","modified_gmt":"2005-02-23T18:05:48","slug":"dying_wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=759","title":{"rendered":"Dying Wish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving my favorite physician-assisted law, the <a href=\"http:\/\/csmonitor.com\/2005\/0223\/p02s02-usju.html\">Oregon Death with Dignity Act<\/a>.  For those of you who don&#8217;t know, I wrote a law journal article focusing on the ODDA when I was a 2L (that&#8217;s a second-year law student, for the uninitiated).  The Bush Administration is hanging its hat on the federal Controlled Substances Act.  The drugs used in physician-assisted suicide are barbiturates and controlled substances under the CSA.  The Administration is arguing that physicians who prescribe controlled substances for the purposes of facilitating suicide are violating the CSA.  I&#8217;m not sure how the Court will rule on this.  The only other Supreme Court case involving physician-assisted suicide was <a href=\"http:\/\/supct.law.cornell.edu\/supct\/search\/display.html?terms=glucksberg&#038;url=\/supct\/html\/historics\/USSC_CR_0521_0702_ZO.html\">Glucksburg <\/a>and the majority, while declaring there is not a Constitutional right to PAS, seemed to leave the issue open for further debate.  This Court absolutely adores states&#8217; rights and limited federal powers, so we&#8217;ll see if that trend continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving my favorite physician-assisted law, the Oregon Death with Dignity Act. For those of you who don&#8217;t know, I wrote a law journal article focusing on the ODDA when I was a 2L (that&#8217;s a second-year law student, for the uninitiated). The Bush Administration is hanging <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=759' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-cf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}