Physician-Assisted Suicide: Who has the Right to Choose?
             2. The article was published in the New England Journal of Medicine
             3. The article was published in January 1997
             4. The author could be in the medical profession or not, maybe the author has had something bad to them and is relating some of type of story to us. The title and the author reveal little to me except that there is an underlying tone of why the author is writing the article.
             5. The working claim of the article is; that the patient has the ultimate right and no one else, not the doctor, lawyers, politicians, judges or anyone else who think that they have a right to interfere with the rights of people who what to take their own life. They can be only judged by one person, if they believe in that person.
             6. At sometime this year the Supreme Court will have to make a decision that will affect the entire population of the United States, that decision will to permit doctors to help their patient take their own lives. If the Supreme Court allows this, doctors in 12 states would be allowed to assist in physician assisted suicide.
             In 1994 the state of Oregon became the first state to allow such a law, however it is in suspension. Several surveys indicate that over two-thirds of the American public is in favor of physician-assisted suicide, this includes more that half of the doctors in the U.S.
             In the editorial the author explains her position of believing the rights of patients having assisted-suicide. The American Medical Association (AMA) has filed a brief opposing the legalization of physician-assisted suicide. But she only writes for herself, focusing on the medical and ethical aspects. She focuses on the rights of patient- autonomy, whereas she explains that these rights are written into our laws governing medical practice and research. The premise is that people have in-alienable right to exercise their rights when asking for assisted suicide, and this i...