Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts decided on December 19 to reject a challenge to Massachusetts prohibition of assisted suicide by finding that there is no right to assisted suicide in the Massachusetts Constitution.
EPC-USA is incredibly pleased by this decision. EPC-USA was the only only group to submit a friend-of-the-court brief and also provide an oral argument before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
The Massachusetts The case known as Kligler v Healy concerns Dr Roger Kligler is living with prostate cancer and seeking death by assisted suicide and Dr Alan Steinbach who is willing to prescribe a lethal drug cocktail for Kligler to die by assisted suicide.