High Court: Doctors can't be punished for assisted suicide

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked the Bush administration's attempt to punish doctors who help terminally ill patients die, protecting Oregon's one-of-a-kind assisted-suicide law.

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