
doi: 10.2307/3528760
pmid: 8970802
constitutional right strike me as tutelary discourse misplaced. They constitute moral discourse of the most peremptory kind, since they preclude other governmental institutions from acting. Further, physician-assisted suicide has not had the kind of social debate that prepares courts to make informed and intelligent judgments. Nor do the conventional sources of judicial wisdom-here principally the Constitution-speak to this issue in ways that relieve judges of the need for the guidance and discipline of social debate.
Philosophy, Legislation as Topic, Civil Rights, Humans, Bioethical Issues, Bioethics, Morals, United States
Philosophy, Legislation as Topic, Civil Rights, Humans, Bioethical Issues, Bioethics, Morals, United States
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