Today, Georgia disability activists, including members of Not Dead Yet, reacted to the Supreme Court ruling that overturned a 1994 law on assisted suicide on First Amendment grounds, calling on the Georgia legislature to tackle the issue as soon as possible and "get it right" this time.
Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) February 07, 2012
Today, Georgia disability activists, including members of
Not Dead Yet, reacted to the
Georgia Supreme Court ruling that overturned a 1994 law on assisted suicide on First Amendment grounds. The overturned statute only criminalized the advertising of suicide assistance and, in effect, left unadvertised suicide assistance free from legal prosecution. The Court found that the main effect of the law was to criminalize certain speech, since the advertising was made illegal, with or without an actual commission of assisted suicide.
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