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...cases of euthanasia and 400 cases of assisted suicide in Holland each year, virtually all involve patients suffering from a terminal illness or unbearable physical pain. Officials charged Chabot with violating the strict guidelines that permit doctors to help patients end their lives. Last week, in a landmark decision, the country's highest court ruled that though Chabot neglected to have another physician personally examine Bosscher, the psychiatrist would not be punished. "The ruling,"says Chabot's lawyer, Eugene Sutorius, "recognizes the right of patients experiencing severe psychic pain to choose to die with dignity."Contends Chabot:" Intolerable psychological suffering...
Come fall, Harvard Yard will no longer have a Garden. That's not referring to some Harvard landmark unknown to casual acquaintances of America's oldest university. It simply means that after two years of using a former apartment building on 29 Garden St. as first-year housing, the College is once again placing all the frosh in Yard and Union dorms...
...40th anniversary of brown v. board of education on May 17 unleashed a torrent of earnest commentary on the nation's op-ed pages. Story after story deplored America's lack of racial progress since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down segregation with that landmark decision. Somehow all the hand-wringing analysis overlooked a small but telling example of how far some blacks have come during the past four decades: the case of Joseph Jett...
Blackmun, appointed to the Supreme Court by Richard M. Nixon in 1970, may be most noted for writing the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1972 case that legalized abortion...
Romney does not consider himself "pro-choice" but says he supports Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision which guaranteed a woman's right to an abortion. Lakian has said he supports abortion rights...