Brute law

On New Year’s Eve, the Montana Supreme Court’s Baxter decision came down while no one was paying attention. They ruled that physicians can now legally prescribe drugs to help people kill themselves. In other words, they’ve legalized physician assisted suicide, no matter how they reword that act.

To which nurse/bioethics expert Nancy Valko says this:

“It was over a decade ago that the US Supreme Court rule unanimously in Quill v. Vacco that there was no constitutional right to assisted suicide. But in Montana, the majority of their Supreme Court apparently rephrases the question and concludes that assisted suicide “does not violate Montana’s statutory law” even with a Montana law against assisted suicide. Remember that this case started when only one judge in one case ruled for the terminally ill man and Compassion and Choices (former Hemlock Society) supporters who brought that case. No vote, no legislation.”

Just sheer power to exert a singular disordered will and render the incoherent into law.