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Published: 10/15/10

C-SPAN's Supreme Court Broadcasts: Assisted Suicide

By  Andrew Cohen - Politics Daily
C-SPAN's Supreme Court Broadcasts: Assisted Suicide

This is the third in a series of 10 special Politics Daily columns to complement C-SPAN's broadcasts this fall of audiotape recordings of some of the most famous and important Supreme Court oral arguments of the past 50 years. The C-SPAN broadcasts will afford most Americans their first opportunity to hear the actual words spoken by the justices and the lawyers before them in arguments that shaped the law that has shaped our lives in countless ways. The third featured tape in the series, focusing on the Washington v. Glucksberg right-to-die/assisted suicide argument in 1997, will be heard on ...

Published: 11/5/09

'Right to Die' Under Increased Scrutiny in the U.K.

By  Delia Lloyd - Politics Daily
'Right to Die' Under Increased Scrutiny in the U.K.

Two harrowing cases have brought the whole "right to die" question back to life in the U.K.The first concerns a year-old infant, known only as Baby RB, who suffers from a rare genetic disease that prevents him from moving his muscles freely or breathing on his own. The baby's parents (who are separated amicably) are in court this week to determine the child's fate. His mother supports the hospital's wish that he be taken off the ventilator on quality-of-life grounds. His father maintains that a simple tracheotomy -- where a tube is inserted into the neck to facilitate breathing -- would enable ...

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