Massachusetts high court: no state constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide
December 28, 2022
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CWN Editor's Note: The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that there is no right to assisted suicide in the state constitution.
“Given our long-standing opposition to suicide in all its forms, and the absence of modern precedent supporting an affirmative right to medical intervention that causes death, we cannot conclude that physician-assisted suicide ranks among those fundamental rights protected by the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights,” the court ruled.
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