Publication Date
5-1991
Document Type
Article
Abstract
In the aftermath of the United States Supreme Court decision in Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health, the writer Nat Hentoff described the prospects for resolving the issue of termination of treatment for the permanently unconscious as "The Coming Civil War":
It will be very much like the civil war . . . since the Supreme Court ... allowed the states to increase their regulatory powdr over abortion, ... there will now be intensified lobbying to amend or create state laws that will either make it harder or easier for death to come calling. . . . .As in abortion, there will be plebiscites all over the country as to who shall live and who shall die.
Recommended Citation
Gold, Jay A.
(1991)
"The Status of the Permanently Unconscious: "You Call That Living?","
Mercer Law Review: Vol. 42:
No.
3, Article 7.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.law.mercer.edu/jour_mlr/vol42/iss3/7