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New York Chronology 1994
- The New York State Task Force on Life and the Law issued a unanimous report rejecting calls for the legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia. The Task Force focused heavily on the dangers legalized medical killing would have for the poor, elderly, minorities, and persons with disabilities. Even members of the Task Force personally supportive of assisted suicide agreed that it should not be legalized.
- U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Griesa ruled that New York's law banning assisted suicide was constitutional. Dr. Timothy Quill was among the plaintiffs to bring the suit. The case was identical to that brought by Compassion in Dying in the State of Washington.
1996
- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit struck down the New York assisted suicide ban. The court ruled that it violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to allow some terminally ill adults to hasten their deaths by directing the removal of life support systems, but to prohibit other terminally ill adults from seeking and taking lethal doses of drugs prescribed by a physician.
- The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review the assisted suicide cases of Washington v. Glucksberg from the State of Washington and Vacco v. Quill from the State of New York.
1997
- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the assisted suicide cases from New York and Washington. The justices unanimously ruled that there is no "constitutional right to assisted suicide." The court left it up to individual states to pass laws regarding assisted suicide.
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