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Until after a Supreme Court ruling in 2006 threw out a Justice Department effort to block Oregonâs law, no other state permitted assisted suicide. Washington adopted its measure in 2008. Several northern European countries, including the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland, also allow assisted suicide.
As the U.S. Department of Justice challenges before the U.S. Supreme Court Oregon's law allowing doctors to assist terminally-ill patients in ending their lives, the American public is evenly divided over whether physician-assisted suicide should be allowed.dditionally, six in ten Republicans, conservatives and African Americans oppose physician-assisted suicide. Majorities of women, those aged 65 or older and Southerners also oppose allowing doctors to assist patients who are terminally ill to take their own lives.