Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1995 11. The effect of the law was nullified in 1997 by the federal Parliament of Australia which passed the "Euthanasia Laws Act 1997". The Act continues on the Territory's statute books. Dr Philip Nitschke founded Exit International in response to the overturning of the Act. While voluntary euthanasia had previously been condoned officially in the Netherlands and the US state of Oregon, the act was the first time that a legislative assembly passed a law explicitly legalising euthanasia. The Act allowed a terminally ill patient to end their life with medical assistance, either by the direct involvement of a physician
Assisted suicide in the United States Protection Clause. However, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously reversed the U.S. Court of Appeals decision in "Vacco v. Quill," 521 U.S. 793 (1997). In February 2015, New York state senators Brad Hoylman and Diane Savino introduced a "Death With Dignity Act" to allow physician-assisted suicide in the state. On September 7, 2017, in "Myers v. Schneiderman", the New York Court of Appeals held that terminally-ill persons did not possess a right to physician-assisted suicide under the New York State Constitution. In May 2017, a bill was passed by the state senate, which sought to legalize physician-assisted suicide. The Nevada Assembly