Doctors Assists in Suicide
April 9, 2010
Advocates in Helena, Montana say that doctors have helped a patient commit suicide since courts ruled it being not illegal. At the end of the year Montana became the third state to allow physician-assisted suicide when the state Supreme Court ruled there was nothing in Montana law preventing it. “The state has no way of knowing how many others there may be, who is doing it or even how it is being done,” says, NBCnews.com. The court ruling widely opened the door for the practice without regulation. “Oregon and Washington have laws outlining guidelines and reporting procedures, but Montana authorities say they don’t have any such legal authority.” Monatana advacacy groups continue to believe that doctors performed the assisted suicide and unfortunately won’t provide them with any details.
