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Federal court overturns Ashcroft rule penalizing Oregon assisted suicides
WASHINGTON (ABP) -- A federal appeals court has stopped Attorney General John Ashcroft's attempt to override an Oregon law allowing physician-assisted suicides. A divided three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled May 26 that Ashcroft overstepped his authority when he declared doctors who prescribe lethal drug doses, which are legal in...
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