Bradford Short makes the point: “Contrary to public misconceptions, neither the majority opinion, nor the dissents, in any way asserted that either individual Americans had a constitutional right to assisted suicide or that States had a constitutional right to legalize assisted suicide.” Also on the assisted-suicide case, read Wesley Smith here. Like, it seems, today’s abortion decision, the sum-up of yesterday’s decision is “isn’t a storyline likely to sell newspapers” but it’s not judicial activism, which is a good thing.
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Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the religion editor of National Review. Sign up for her weekly newsletter here. She is the author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living.
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