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The judge seemed genuinely puzzled at the fact that the Oakland County, Mich., prosecutor's office sought to indict [Jack Kevorkian] for murder. If [Janet Adkins] committed suicide using Kevorkian's machine, then how could the doctor be guilty of murder?

If [Janet Adkins] committed suicide using [Jack Kevorkian]'s machine, then how could the doctor be guilty of murder? After all, there is a videotape made the night before her death in which Janet Adkins indicates that she wanted to die

The lack of an adequate supply of cadaver organs and tissues for transplantation to those in need poses a major challenge to the transplant community and to those responsible for public policy. Historically, Americans have relied upon a combination of altruism and voluntarism to generate an adequate supply of cadaver organs and tissues. The ongoing shortage of organs and tissues has led, in recent years, for calls to abandon these values in favor of either a market system or a system of presumed consent. A survey of the impact of the federal and state laws that require that requests be made to next of kin for organ and tissue donation when a death occurs in a hospital setting shows that inadequate efforts have been made to implement these laws. Before abandoning altruism and voluntarism, health care professionals must insist that zealous efforts in education, enforcement, and coordination be made to implement these new laws and regulations.

[Anna Johnson] says the Calverts quickly lost interest in the pregnancy. She claims they breached their contract with her by failing to make payments they owed her in a timely manner. She says she has gotten no emotional support from the Calverts. When she went into false labor, she says, they refused to drive her to the hospital

David Arnot, a judge in the Provincial Court in North Battleford, Sask., faced a difficult decision. Should the parents of a young girl be allowed to refuse to consent to the only medical intervention capable of saving her life? He ruled that Francois and Leslie Paulette had the right to refuse permission for a liver transplant to be performed on their daughter, K'aila

Let's remember who found [David H. Souter]: Bush's factotum, John H. Sununu, the chief of staff. Sununu told Bush that when he was governor of New Hampshire, he chanced to meet a strange, monkish little man who professed the wisdom of strict, original- intent judicial conservatism but who had never written an article on legal issues nor ventured a public opinion

Ordering those who fund science to fix gender discrimination by quota or by fiat won't work. Unless the biomedical community begins to take seriously the idea that women are just as normal as men, researchers will continue to be wary of using them as research subjects. And unless society debates and reaches consensus on ethical, legal and social policies that ought to govern involvement of pregnant women and women of child-bearing age in research, researchers will continue to steer away from these women

Now, a flurry of editorials and opinion pieces urge Americans to fill out living wills. This is sound advice. But the tragedy of the Supreme Court's decision in the [Nancy Cruzan] case is that relatively few people will heed it, and many more cannot