481 (1996); Kamisar, Against Assisted Suicide-Even in a Very Limited Form, 72 U. Det. If the supplying of content to this Constitutional concept has of necessity been a rational process, it certainly has not been one where judges have felt free to roam where unguided speculation might take them. Washington and New York are among the minority of States to have criminalized attempted suicide, though neither State still does so. The District Court determined that Casey's "undue burden" standard, 505 U. S., at 874 (joint opinion), not the standard from United States v. Salerno, 481 U.S. 739, 745 (1987) (requiring a showing that "no set of circumstances exists under which the [law] would be valid"), governed the plaintiffs' facial challenge to the assisted suicide ban. Penal Law §125.15(3) (McKinney 1975)). 625, 626-627, 67 L.Ed. 1987). . The answer has to be, for the reasons already stated, that the legislative process is to be preferred. The analogies between the abortion cases and this one are several. how to die," a right to "control of one's final days," "the right to choose in Cruzan, supra, at 279, was not simply deduced from abstract concepts 2791, 120 L.Ed.2d 674 (1992), and Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Dept. 1885); Martin v. Commonwealth, 184 Va. 1009, 1018-1019, 37 S. E. 2d 43, 47 (1946) (" ‘The right to life and to personal security is not only sacred in the estimation of the common law, but it is inalienable' "). The business of manufacturing and selling contraceptives may be regulated in ways that do not [even] infringe protected individual choices"). Because of advances in medicine and technology, Americans today are increasingly likely to die in institutions, from chronic illnesses. of Health, 497 U.S. 261, 278 (1990) ("constitutionally protected liberty interest"); Youngberg v. Romeo, 457 U. S., at 315 ("liberty interests"), and at times we have also called such an interest a "right" even before balancing it against the government's interest, see, e.g., Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, 153-154 (1973); Carey v. Population Services Int'l,supra, at 686, 688, and n. 5; Poe, 367 U. S., at 541 ("rights ‘which are . The Court's established method of substantive due process analysis has two primary features: First, the Court has regularly observed that the Clause specially protects those fundamental rights and liberties which are, objectively, deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition. 8. However, given our holding that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment does not provide heightened protection to the asserted liberty interest in ending one's life with a physician's assistance, such a claim would have to be quite different from the ones advanced by respondents here. L.B. California voters rejected an assisted suicide initiative similar to Washington's in 1993. . Stat. . The theory became serious, however, beginning with Allgeyer v. Louisiana, 165 U.S. 578, 17 S.Ct. As the court below recognized, 79 F. 3d, at 816-817, [n20] Washington's assisted suicide ban implicates a number of state interests. . In addition, all states provide for the involuntary commitment of persons who may harm themselves as the result of mental illness, and a number of states allow the use of nondeadly force to thwart suicide attempts." New York Task Force 120; see Compassion in Dying, 49 F. 3d, at 593 ("[A]n insidious bias against the handicapped--again coupled with a cost saving mentality--makes them especially in need of Washington's statutory protection"). As of February 1997, three persons had ended their lives with physician assistance in the Northern Territory. 427, 41 L.Ed. and Breyer, J., filed opinions concurring in the judgment. and Breyer, JJ., joined in part. 6298 (1995); Ill. H.B. [n17] In our view, however, the development of this Court's substantive due process jurisprudence, described briefly above, supra, at 15, has been a process whereby the outlines of the "liberty" specially protected by the Fourteenth Amendment--never fully clarified, to be sure, and perhaps not capable of being fully clarified--have at least been carefully refined by concrete examples involving fundamental rights found to be deeply rooted in our legal tradition. Marzen 76-77, 205-206, 212-213. In so doing, it suggested a point that Justice Harlan would develop, that the kind and degree of justification that a sensitive judge would demand of a State would depend on the importance of the interest being asserted by the individual. Brief for Petitioners 21-25. as Amici Curiae 21-29; Brief for Bioethics Professors as Amici Curiae 23-26; Report of the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs, App. 1795). Id., at 76-77. 287, 288 (1920). 4, ch. Co., 93 U.S. 284, 286 (1876) (suicide is "an act of criminal self destruction"); Von Holden v. Chapman, 87 App. Wash. Rev. to that second requirement. 2841, 2851-2852, 111 L.Ed.2d 224 (1990); id., at 287-288, 110 S.Ct., at 2856-2857 (O'CONNOR, J., concurring). Id., at 356. In 1919, New York repealed the statutory provision making attempted suicide a crime. Id., at ¶2.6; see also App. . 2791, 2805-2806, 2816-2822, 120 L.Ed.2d 674 (1992) (joint opinion of O'CONNOR, KENNEDY, and SOUTER, JJ. In my judgment, the importance of the individual interest here, as within that class of "certain interests" demanding careful scrutiny of the State's contrary claim, see Poe, supra, at 543, cannot be gainsaid. That being the case, our decisions lead us to conclude that the asserted "right" to assistance in committing suicide is not a fundamental liberty interest protected by the Due Process Clause. "Were due process merely a procedural safeguard it would fail to reach those situations where the deprivation of life, liberty or property was accomplished by legislation which by operating in the future could, given even the fairest possible procedure in application to individuals, nevertheless destroy the enjoyment of all three." Since the Ninth Circuit's decision, Louisiana, Rhode Island, and Iowa have enacted statutory assisted suicide bans. John Doe, Jane Roe, and James Poe, plaintiffs in the District Court, were then in the terminal phases of serious and painful illnesses. an abhorrence of this crime." Compassion in Dying v. Washington, 49 F. 3d 586, 591 (1995). Found insideStephen P. Halbrook's The Founders' Second Amendment is the first book-length account of the origins of the Second Amendment, based on the Founders' own statements as found in newspapers, correspondence, debates, and resolutions. In response, the State argues that the interest asserted by the doctors is beyond constitutional recognition because it has no deep roots in our history and traditions. . Poe, supra, at 548, 81 S.Ct., at 1779-1780 (Harlan, J., dissenting) (an "enactment involv[ing] . Many patients prescribed lethal medications never actually take them; they merely acquire some sense of control in the process of dying that the availability of those medications provides. 1, 56-63 (1985). Thus, we are dealing with a claim to one of those rights sometimes described as rights of substantive due process and sometimes as unenumerated rights, in view of the breadth and indeterminacy of the "due process'' serving as the claim's textual basis. Four years later, Washington passed its Natural Death Act, which specifically stated that the "withholding or withdrawal of life sustaining treatment . United States Supreme Court 521 U.S. 702 (1997) Facts. Research indicates, however, that many people who request physician-assisted suicide withdraw that request if their depression and pain are treated. For many, the last days will be spent in physical pain and perhaps the despair that accompanies physical deterioration and a loss of control of basic bodily and mental functions. Rev. We agree that the case for a slippery slope has been made out, but-bearing in mind Justice Cardozo's observation of " [t]he tendency of a principle to expand itself to the limit of its logic,'' The Nature of the Judicial Process 51 (1932)-we also recognize the reasonableness of the widely expressed skepticism about the lack of a principled basis for confining the right. § 609.215(3) (West Supp. but who takes off his eye from a comet when that breaks out? Case Name and Citation: [1] Washington v. Glucksberg, 521 U.S. 702 (1997) B. To hold for respondents, the Court would have to reverse centuries of legal I join the Court's opinions because I agree that there is no generalized right to "commit suicide." Other countries are embroiled in similar debates: The Supreme Court of Canada recently rejected a claim that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms establishes a fundamental right to assisted suicide, Rodriguez v. British Columbia (Attorney General), 107 D. L. R. (4th) 342 (1993); the British House of Lords Select Committee on Medical Ethics refused to recommend any change in Great Britain's assisted suicide prohibition, House of Lords, Session 1993-94 Report of the Select Committee on Medical Ethics, 12 Issues in Law & Med. 24-31. he intentionally causes or aids another person to commit suicide.'' Fletcher, 6 Cranch, at 135-139, 3 L.Ed. administration by the physician . [n10]. See, e.g., Ore. Rev. When identifying and assessing the competing interests of liberty and authority, for example, the breadth of expression that a litigant or a judge selects in stating the competing principles will have much to do with the outcome and may be dispositive. traditions, given the country's consistent, almost universal, and continuing §45-5-105 (1995); Neb.Rev.Stat. Washington, like other States, authorizes physicians to withdraw life-sustaining medical treatment and artificially delivered food and water from patients who request it, even though such actions will hasten death. §216.304 (Michie 1997) (same); Minn.Stat. The final major interest asserted by the State is its interest in preserving the traditional integrity of the medical profession. Dr. Harold Glucksberg, a physician—along with four other physicians, three terminally ill patients, and the non-profit organization, Compassion in Dying, counseling those . Laws (3 Penal Code), pp. 5596 (1995); Wis. A.B. § 21-3406 (1995); Ky. Rev. "careful description" of the asserted fundamental liberty interest. "An excellent volume, which will be useful to both professional philosophers and students."-Ethics §18-3-104(1)(b) (Supp.1996); Conn. Gen.Stat. -[Suicide] is so abhorrent to the feelings of mankind, and that strong love of life which is implanted in the human heart, that it cannot be so frequently committed, as to become dangerous to society. Relatedly, all admit that suicide is a serious public-health problem, especially among persons in otherwise vulnerable groups. Ann. #1 at ¶ 11. In this light, even assuming that we would recognize such an interest, I agree that the State's interests in protecting those who are not truly competent or facing imminent death, or those whose decisions to hasten death would not truly be voluntary, are sufficiently weighty to justify a prohibition against physician assisted suicide. to be self administered for the purpose of hastening . We therefore have a clear question about which institution, a legislature or a court, is relatively more competent to deal with an emerging issue as to which facts currently unknown could be dispositive. This substantive protection of an owner's property in a slave taken to the territories was traced to the absence of any enumerated power to affect that property granted to the Congress by Article I of the Constitution, id., at 451-452, the implication being that the government had no legitimate interest that could support the earlier congressional compromise. that respondents' asserted "right" to assistance in committing suicide Thus, a Connecticut court approved a statute legitimating a class of previous illegitimate marriages, as falling within the terms of the "social compact," while making clear its power to review constitutionality in those terms. 1995); Celo Cruz, Aid in Dying: Should We Decriminalize Physician Assisted Suicide and Physician Committed Euthanasia?, 18 Am. §14:32.12 (Supp.1997); R.I. Gen. Laws §§11-60-1, 11-60-3 (Supp.1996); Iowa Code Ann. 1454, 1464, n. 9 (W.D.Wash.1994) (citing Legislative Council Judiciary Committee, Report on the Revised Washington Criminal Code 153 (Dec. 3, 1970)). . Roe, 410 U. S., at 162, the Court recognized a woman's right to a physician's counsel and care. B. See, e.g., Alaska H.B. [n8] The States' assisted suicide bans are not innovations. This approach tends to rein in the subjective elements that are necessarily present in due process judicial review. Dept. 18. Ibid. Natural Death Act, 1979 Wash. Laws, ch. Argued January 8, 1997 -- Decided Whether that interest might in some circumstances, or at some time, be seen as "fundamental" to the degree entitled to prevail is not, however, a conclusion that I need draw here, for I am satisfied that the State's interests described in the following section are sufficiently serious to defeat the present claim that its law is arbitrary or purposeless. Given the irreversible nature of her illness and the progressive character of her suffering, [n9] Nancy Cruzan's interest in refusing medical care was incidental to her more basic interest in controlling the manner and timing of her death. 1439, 1446-1447, 123 L.Ed.2d 1 (1993) (reaffirming that due process "forbids the government to infringe certain "fundamental' liberty interests . See generally Corwin, Liberty Against Government, at 121-136 (surveying the Court's early Fourteenth Amendment cases and finding little dissent from the general principle that the Due Process Clause authorized judicial review of substantive statutes). Washington v. Glucksberg. See id., at 153; see also Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U. S., at 482 ("This law . 339 (1995); N.M.S.B. Thus, as the Poe dissent illustrates, the task of determining whether the concrete right claimed by an individual in a particular case falls within the ambit of a more generalized protected liberty requires explicit analysis when what the individual wants to do could arguably be characterized as belonging to different strands of our legal tradition requiring different degrees of constitutional scrutiny. 1. Dr. Harold Glucksberg, along with four other doctors, a nonprofit organization, and three termanilly ill patients filed a law suite in the U.S. District Court for the western With this "careful description'' of respondents' claim in mind, we turn to Casey and Cruzan. As for ending artificial life support, the State again may see its interest in preserving life as weaker here than in the general case just because artificial life support preserves life when nature would not; and, because such life support is a frequently offensive bodily intrusion, there is a lesser reason to fear that a decision to remove it would not be the choice of one fully responsible. 929 (1874); Munn v. Illinois, 94 U.S. 113, 123-135, 24 L.Ed. The Court rested the invalidation on alternative sources of authority: the specific prohibitions against bills of attainder, ex post-facto laws, laws impairing contracts in Article I, § 10 of the Constitution; and "general principles which are common to our free institutions," by which Chief Justice Marshall meant that a simple deprivation of property by the State could not be an authentically "legislative" act. The ensuing judgment of history needs no recounting here. . In 2001, the U.S. Attorney General issue a Rule stating that the law violated the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. The Court ends its opinion with the important observation that our holding today is fully consistent with a continuation of the vigorous debate about the "morality, legality, and practicality of physician assisted suicide" in a democratic society. No. § 1404(a); Decker Coal Co. v. Commonwealth. 79 F. 3d, at 798, n. 9, and emphasized that it was "not deciding the facial validity of [the Washington statute]," id., at 797-798, and nn. Ann. La. Second, we have required in substantive due process cases a "careful description" of the asserted fundamental liberty interest. (b) In light of that history, this Court's decisions lead to the conclusion that respondents' asserted "right'' to assistance in committing suicide is not a fundamental liberty interest protected by the Due Process Clause. Turning to the claim at issue here, the Court of Appeals stated that " [p]roperly analyzed, the first issue to be resolved is whether there is a liberty interest in determining the time and manner of one's death,'' 79 F.3d, at 801, or, in other words, " [i]s there a right to die?,'' id., at 799. Judge Johnson of the New York Court of Appeals had made the point more obliquely a century earlier when he wrote that, "the form of this declaration of right, ‘no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law,' necessarily imports that the legislature cannot make the mere existence of the rights secured the occasion of depriving a person of any of them, even by the forms which belong to ‘due process of law.' 735 (1995). 79 F.3d, at 817. There is no reason to think the democratic process will not strike the proper balance between the interests of terminally ill, mentally competent individuals who would seek to end their suffering and the State's interests in protecting those who might seek to end life mistakenly or under pressure. Swift, A System of the Laws of the State of Connecticut 304 (1796). Ann., Tit. Another study showed that 12% of physicians polled in Washington State reported that they had been asked by their terminally ill patients for prescriptions to hasten death, and that, in the year prior to the study, 24% of those physicians had complied with such requests. This concern is further supported by evidence about the practice of euthanasia in the Netherlands. certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the ninth circuit No. Over time, however, the American colonies abolished these harsh common law penalties. True, the Court relied on Justice Harlan's dissent in Casey, 505 U.S., at 848-850, 112 S.Ct., at 2805-2806, but, as Flores demonstrates, we did not in so doing jettison our established approach. As in any process of rational argumentation, we recognize that when a generally accepted principle is challenged, the broader the attack the less likely it is to succeed. of the reader. E.g., Moore v. East Cleveland, 431 U.S. 494, 503, 97 S.Ct. The question presented in this case, however, is whether the protections of the Due Process Clause include a right to commit suicide with another's assistance. * Respondents claim that a patient facing imminent death, who anticipates physical suffering and indignity, and is capable of responsible and voluntary choice, should have a right to a physician's assistance in providing counsel and drugs to be administered by the patient to end life promptly. v. Teri Lewis and Thomas Lewis, personal representative of the Estate of Philip Lewis, deceased. There can be no greater cruelty, than the inflicting [of] a punishment, as the forfeiture of goods, which must fall solely on the innocent offspring of the offender. In that period when the end is imminent, they said, the decision to end life is closest to decisions that are generally accepted as proper instances of exercising autonomy over one's own body, instances recognized under the Constitution and the State's own law, instances in which the help of physicians is accepted as falling within the traditional norm. This asserted right has no place in our Nation's traditions, given the country's consistent, almost universal, and continuing rejection of the right, even for terminally ill, mentally competent adults. bodily integrity." (1994), to permit "aid in dying", defined as "aid in the form of a medical service provided in person by a physician that will end the life of a conscious and mentally competent qualified patient in a dignified, painless and humane manner, when requested voluntarily by the patient through a written directive in accordance with this chapter at the time the medical service is to be provided." "Nancy Cruzan's interest in life, no less than that of any other person, includes an interest in how she will be thought of after her death by those whose opinions mattered to her. They are, for me, dispositive of the due process claim at this time. Ante, at 21. The State's present law makes "[p]romoting a suicide attempt" a felony, and provides: "A person is . The doctors also rely on the Equal Protection Clause, but that source of law does essentially nothing in a case like this that the Due Process Clause cannot do on its own. 6205 (1996); Mich. S. B. See, e.g., H. Hendin, Seduced By Death 75-84 (1997) (noting many cases in which decisions intended to end the life of a fully competent patient were made without a request from the patient and without consulting the patient); Keown, Euthanasia in the Netherlands: Sliding Down the Slippery Slope?, in Euthanasia Examined 261, 289 (J. Keown ed.1995) (guidelines have "proved signally ineffectual; non-voluntary euthanasia is now widely practised and increasingly condoned in the Netherlands''); Gomez, supra, at 104-113. 1439, 1447, 123 L.Ed.2d 1 (1993); see also, e.g., Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S., at 155, 93 S.Ct., at 727; Carey v. Population Services Int'l, 431 U.S., at 686, 97 S.Ct., at 2016. Justice Souter concludes that "[t]he case for the slippery slope is fairly made out here, not because recognizing one due process right would leave a court with no principled basis to avoid recognizing another, but because there is a plausible case that the right claimed would not be readily containable by reference to facts about the mind that are matters of difficult judgment, or by gatekeepers who are subject to temptation, noble or not." Id., at 589. See id., at 552-553, 81 S.Ct., at 1781-1782. We therefore hold that Wash. Rev. 1 W. Hawkins, Pleas of the Crown, ch. See 2 E. Coke, Institutes 50 (1797); see also E. Corwin, Liberty Against Government 90-91 (1948). §§ 707A.2, 707A.3 (Supp. Dept. . 1, 56-63 (1985). 11. Complaint ¶ 2.3. But whatever the categories in which we place the dissent's example, it stands in marked contrast to earlier cases whose reasoning was marked by comparatively less discrimination, and it points to the importance of evaluating the claims of the parties now before us with comparable detail. Id., at 745. e.g., Heller v. Doe, 509 § 35-42-1-2.5(a)(1) (Supp. . The 1937 New York Report of the Law Revision Commission found that the history of the ban on assisting suicide was "traceable into the ancient common law when a suicide or felo de se was guilty of crime punishable by forfeiture of his goods and chattels." See, e.g., 505 U. S., at 873. . As noted above, we have a tradition of carefully formulating the interest at stake in substantive due process cases. Public Vows is a panoramic view of marriage's political history, revealing the national government's profound role in our most private of choices. No one who reads this book will think of marriage in the same way again. . . Morgan Stanley Capital Group Inc. v. Public Utility District No. (1994), to permit "aid-in-dying'', defined as "aid in the form of a medical service provided in person by a physician that will end the life of a conscious and mentally competent qualified patient in a dignified, painless and humane manner, when requested voluntarily by the patient through a written directive in accordance with this chapter at the time the medical service is to be provided.'' Ann. The answer has to be, for the reasons already stated, that the legislative process is to be preferred. 676, §§172-178, 1881 N.Y. Laws (3 Penal Code), pp. For example, the legislators of the Providence Plantations, which would later become Rhode Island, declared, in 1647, that " [s]elf-murder is by all agreed to be the most unnatural, and it is by this present Assembly declared, to be that, wherein he that doth it, kills himself out of a premeditated hatred against his own life or other humor: . [n9]Cruzan, 497 U. S., at 294-295 (Scalia, J., concurring). Much more than the State's paternalistic interest in protecting the individual from the irrevocable consequences of an ill advised decision motivated by temporary concerns is at stake. See, e.g.,Poe,supra, at 553 (Harlan, J., dissenting); Youngberg v. Romeo, 457 U.S. 307, 320-321 (1982). The State, however, goes further, to argue that dependence on the vigilance of physicians will not be enough. physicians who occasionally treat terminally ill, suffering patients, declare The court also discussed what it described as "historical" and "current societal attitudes" toward suicide and assisted suicide, id., at 806-812, and concluded that "the Constitution encompasses a due process liberty interest in controlling the time and manner of one's death--that there is, in short, a constitutionally recognized ‘right to die.' Washington, like other States, authorizes physicians to withdraw life sustaining medical treatment and artificially delivered food and water from patients who request it, even though such actions will hasten death. Respondents also admit the existence of these interests, Brief for Respondents 28-39, but contend that Washington could better promote and protect them through regulation, rather than prohibition, of physician-assisted suicide. We must therefore "exercise the utmost care whenever we are asked to break new ground in this field,'' ibid, lest the liberty protected by the Due Process Clause be subtly transformed into the policy preferences of the members of this Court, Moore, 431 U.S., at 502, 97 S.Ct., at 1937 (plurality opinion). §97-3-49 (1994); Mo. unconstitutional unless . We have recognized, however, that this common law right to refuse treatment is neither absolute nor always sufficiently weighty to overcome valid countervailing state interests. §70.122.051. 6298 (1995); Ill. H. B. Brief. The persistence of substantive due process in our cases points to the legitimacy of the modern justification for such judicial review found in Justice Harlan's dissent in Poe, [n4] on which I will dwell further on, while the acknowledged failures of some of these cases point with caution to the difficulty raised by the present claim. The Court then held that the same Fourteenth Amendment liberty included a teacher's right to teach and the rights of parents to direct their children's education without unreasonable interference by the States, id., at 400, with the result that Nebraska's prohibition on the teaching of foreign languages in the lower grades was, "arbitrary and without reasonable relation to any end within the competency of the State," id., at 403. on the exercise of that constitutionally protected liberty interest. . The history of the law's treatment of assisted suicide in this country has been and continues to be one of the rejection of nearly all efforts to permit it. §13-1103(A)(3) (West Supp.1996-1997); Ark.Code Ann. WASHINGTON V GLUCKSBERG WAS TRAGICALLY WRONG. Similarly, the Court of Appeals concluded that "Cruzan, by recognizing a liberty interest that includes the refusal of artificial provision of life-sustaining food and water, necessarily recognize[d] a liberty interest in hastening one's own death.'' J. Med. § 39-13-216(b)(2) (1996); others permit patients to sign health care directives in which they authorize pain treatment even if it hastens death. §§ 24-7A-4, 24-7A-9 (Supp. Id., at ¶2.5-2.8. La.Rev.Stat. § 216.302 (Michie 1994); La. Cruzan, supra, at 294 (Scalia, J., concurring). Reliance on this fact is sanctioned under the standard that looks not only to the tradition retained, but to society's occasional choices to reject traditions of the legal past. For example, New York State's Task Force on Life and the Law-an ongoing, blue-ribbon commission composed of doctors, ethicists, lawyers, religious leaders, and interested laymen-was convened in 1984 and commissioned with "a broad mandate to recommend public policy on issues raised by medical advances.'' No formula could serve as a substitute, in this area, for judgment and restraint.'' Pub.L. § 18-3-104(1)(b) (Supp. Relatedly, all admit that suicide is a serious public health problem, especially among persons in otherwise vulnerable groups. Therefore, "for purposes of [that] case, we assume[d] that the United States Constitution would grant a competent person a constitutionally protected right to refuse lifesaving hydration and nutrition." 625, 67 L.Ed. Many States, for example, now permit "living wills," surrogate health care decisionmaking, and the withdrawal or refusal of life sustaining medical treatment. 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