"A state's categorical ban on physician assistance to suicide -- as applied to competent, terminally ill patients who wish to avoid unendurable pain and hasten inevitable death -- substantially interferes with this protected liberty interest and cannot be sustained."
-- ACLU Amicus Brief in Vacco v. Quill(72 KB)
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Dec. 10, 1996
It's your body. It's your choice. Will you choose pain or dignity?