The state’s highest court will take up Mr. Baxter’s
claim that a doctor’s refusal to help him die violated his rights under
Montana’s Constitution — and lawyers on both sides say the chances are
good that he will prevail.
Washington and Oregon allow physicians
to help terminally ill people hasten their deaths, but in those states
the laws were approved by voters in statewide referendums, and neither
state’s highest court has examined the issue of a constitutional right
to die.
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