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The Supreme Court Wednesday heard arguments on whether states may ban doctor- assisted suicide. Most justices expressed doubt there is a right to assisted...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eEnglish/Nat\u003cbr/\u003eIt's one of the most closely-watched cases in the U-S in years.  \u003cbr/\u003eThe Supreme Court Wednesday heard arguments on whether states may ban doctor- assisted suicide. \u003cbr/\u003eMost justices expressed doubt there is a right to assisted suicide.\u003cbr/\u003eIt's an emotional issue with no easy answer.\u003cbr/\u003eAmericans remain deeply divided on the question whether doctors should be legally  allowed to help a patient die.\u003cbr/\u003eThat division was extremely apparent outside the U-S Supreme Court Wednesday, as  hundreds of people from both sides of the argument came out to voice their opinions.\u003cbr/\u003eAt issue are two appeals that could be the most closely watched Supreme Court cases  since 1992, when justices reaffirmed the constitutional right to abortion. \u003cbr/\u003eThe cases at hand raise similar questions about an individual's right to control his or her  own body.\u003cbr/\u003eIf the Supreme Court lets the lower decisions stand, doctors will be legally allowed to  prescribe lethal drugs to terminally-ill patients.\u003cbr/\u003eEuthanasia, or the administration of a lethal drug by a doctor, would still be illegal.\u003cbr/\u003eOpponents of assisted suicide believe that in the era of managed care, poor or severely  disabled patients would be pressured into suicide and would not be fully informed of  other options.\u003cbr/\u003eNew York Attorney General Dennis Vacco argued before the Court Wednesday that his  state's law should be reinstated and that physician-assisted suicide should be banned.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We're going to affect the trust that exists between physicians and patients, but we're  also going to affect the way we deliver our medical treatments now in this society.   Simply put, it is cheaper to kill than it is to treat.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Dennis Vacco, Attorney General of New York\u003cbr/\u003eBut lawyers challenging the New York law say the terminally-ill  have a right to decide  when the pain is too much and have the right to die with dignity.\u003cbr/\u003e\"It is right when you are dying not to suffer unbearable agony any more than you can  take it and then not to have to choose between agony and totally unconsciousness.  It's  the right to dignity in the process of dying.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Lawrence Tribe, attorney challenging New York law\u003cbr/\u003eThose who oppose doctor-assisted suicide say the real issue is that the American  medical system is not properly caring for terminally-ill patients.\u003cbr/\u003eThey say instead of offering the option of suicide, doctors should provide patients with  more pain-management options and a better quality of life.\u003cbr/\u003eBut supporters of a constitutional right to assisted suicide say such assistance would  only be an option in extreme cases, when all other methods of relief have failed.\u003cbr/\u003eAs in the case of this man, who is terminally ill with Lou Gehrig's disease, an illness  that eventually leads to complete paralysis.\u003cbr/\u003eBecause of his disease, Noel Earley can no longer move or talk, and can hardly  breathe.\u003cbr/\u003eNo medication exists that can help him.\u003cbr/\u003eNoel has publicly proclaimed that he will commit suicide, because he says no one  should have to suffer like this.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We have a right to end the disease that is assaulting our independence and our dignity  in the absence of medical intervention.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Noel Earley, terminally ill patient\u003cbr/\u003eOpponents of assisted suicide say if the practice is legalised, it would be available even  to terminally ill people who are not in severe pain.\u003cbr/\u003eThe American Medical Association -- which wrote a brief for the Supreme Court  opposing physician-assisted suicide -- says too many people would die premature  deaths if the practice were legalised.\u003cbr/\u003e\"There are a great many people who would be at risk.  There would be economic  pressures, there would be family pressures, social pressures to say perhaps you ought  to consider the easier way to choose death with dignity or assisted suicide.  And we  think that the state has the right--and the profession has the right--to try to protect  those people from dying prematurely.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Dr. Nancy Dickey, American Medical Association\u003cbr/\u003eBut many terminally ill people -- like this man with prostate cancer -- say it is not the  State's place to decide whether and when his death is premature.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The government has absolutely no right and should have no power to compel me to live  and suffer if I am in such a state that I would prefer not to live and suffer any longer.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Roy Tochaso, cancer patient\u003cbr/\u003eTim Quill -- who argues that assisted suicide is a constitutional right -- says there will  always be terminally-ill patients who will want to end their lives.\u003cbr/\u003eBut, he says, if the practice were regulated, patients would receive better care in the  long run.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The question we have to ask:  Are we better off with an open system subject to  regulation or are we better off with a secret system, as we currently have, where you  have to hedge your intentions and where when people get help, they get help in secret.   No second opinion.  No reassurance that every stone had been turned.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Tim Quill, attorney fighting for assisted-suicide\u003cbr/\u003eThe court has already recognised a constitutional right to die.  \u003cbr/\u003eIn 1990 it ruled that terminally ill people could refuse life-sustaining medical treatment.\u003cbr/\u003eFive years later, however, the justices rejected a challenge by Dr. Jack Kevorkian to  Michigan's ban on assisted suicide. \u003cbr/\u003eKevorkian is not involved in the cases being argued Wednesday.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Supreme Court will decide by July whether to reinstate the laws under question  Wednesday and whether to declare doctor-assisted suicide a constitutional right.\u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC, USA, 8 January 1997 \u0026amp; Lincoln, Rhode Island, USA, 8 January  1997\u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC:\u003cbr/\u003e1. Exterior shot of Supreme Court building with zoom out to demonstrators\u003cbr/\u003e2. Pan of demonstrators in wheelchairs\u003cbr/\u003e3. Demonstrators in wheelchairs\u003cbr/\u003e4. WS of Supreme Court building\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE:  Dennis Vacco, New York Attorney General\u003cbr/\u003e6. MS of Lawrence Tribe at press conference, exterior\u003cbr/\u003e7. Cutaway of press and photographers\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: Lawrence Tribe, attorney for New York doctors\u003cbr/\u003eLincoln, Rhode Island:\u003cbr/\u003e9. Lou Gehrig's disease patient Noel Earley lying in bed \u003cbr/\u003e10. Nurse attends to Noel Earley\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE: Noel Earley, terminally ill patient\u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC:\u003cbr/\u003e12.  Behind shot of demonstrators outside Supreme Court building\u003cbr/\u003e13. Man in wheelchair demonstrating with banner \"Not Dead Yet\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Pan to other demonstrators \u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE: Dr. Nancy Dickey, American Medical Association\u003cbr/\u003e16. Cancer patient arguing with protestors outside the court\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE: Roy Tochaso, cancer patient\u003cbr/\u003e18. Cutaway of press\u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE: Tim Quill, attorney supporting assisted suicide\u003cbr/\u003e17. 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