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Wide of US Supreme Court buildingAP Television News FILE - Washington DC - October 20052. Various of pro-euthanasia protestersAP Television News Washington DC - 17 January 20063. Cutaway of Gregory...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Television News\u003cbr/\u003eWashington DC\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of US Supreme Court building\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television News \u003cbr/\u003eFILE - Washington DC - October 2005\u003cbr/\u003e2. Various of pro-euthanasia protesters\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television News \u003cbr/\u003eWashington DC - 17 January 2006\u003cbr/\u003e3. Cutaway of Gregory Castanias, lawyer at Jones Day Law Firm (supports decision)\u003cbr/\u003e4.  SOUNDBITE (English) Gregory Castanias, lawyer at Jones Day Law Firm (supports decision):\u003cbr/\u003e\"The significance of today's decision is that it upholds, against Federal government's opposition, the Oregon death of dignity act.  And that act now provides a pattern for other states, should they so choose to make legal under careful circumstances, physician assisted suicide.\"\u003cbr/\u003eWashington DC - 31 October 2005\u003cbr/\u003e5. Various class photo of US Supreme Court justices \u003cbr/\u003eAP Television News \u003cbr/\u003eWashington DC - 17 January, 2006\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide of White House spokesman Scott McClellan walking to podium \u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott McClellan, White House spokesman: \u003cbr/\u003e\"I would express our disappointments. I know the Department of Justice is reviewing the decision. We are disappointed at the decision, the president remains fully committed to building a culture of life. A culture of life that is built on valuing life at all stages and that's the President's (US President George W. Bush) commitment.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Wide of Colby May, special counsel at American Centre for Law and Justice walking down staircase (opposes decision)\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (English) Colby May, Special Counsel at American Centre for Law and Justice (opposes decision): \u003cbr/\u003e\"We believe that it is not legally correct to go at that direction and we do not support movements to early end life.  There will be a natural end to life and along the way, you should appropriately provide medication to palliate or to relieve pain and suffering and treat whatever it is you possibly can. But the very idea that a physician would be able to prescribe medication to end someone's life, we think is a do not go area.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003ePortland, Oregon - 17 January 2006\u003cbr/\u003e10. Office celebration\u003cbr/\u003e11. Terminally ill cancer patient Char Andrews pours champagne\u003cbr/\u003e12. Char Andrews hugs Compassion \u0026amp; Choices volunteer Julie McMurchie whose terminally ill mother used Oregon's Law to end her life in 2001 \u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Char Andrews, terminally ill patient:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It gives me peace knowing that I'm going to be able to die with my family around me in a peaceful dignified manner with compassion and love surrounding me.\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Dr. Kenneth Stevens, Board Member, Physicians for Compassionate Care, walks down a Portland street\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. Kenneth Stevens, Physicians for Compassionate Care:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I felt that the purpose of the federally controlled drugs are to be used only for legitimate medical purposes and assisted suicide is not a legitimate medical purpose. It turns medicine upside down. Instead of taking care of the patients, they're causing their death and I think society's going to really pay the price of that in Oregon and if it occurs in other states as well.\"\u003cbr/\u003eFILE - AP Television News \u003cbr/\u003eWashington DC - October 2005\u003cbr/\u003e16. Various of anti-euthanasia protesters\u003cbr/\u003eThe US Supreme Court upheld Oregon's one-of-a-kind physician-assisted suicide law on Tuesday, rejecting a Bush administration attempt to punish doctors who help terminally ill patients die.\u003cbr/\u003eJustices, on a 6-3 vote, said that a federal drug law does not override the 1997 Oregon Law used to end the lives of more than 200 seriously ill people. \u003cbr/\u003eNew Chief Justice John Roberts backed the Bush administration, dissenting for the first time.\u003cbr/\u003eThe administration improperly tried to use a drug law to punish Oregon doctors who prescribe lethal doses of prescription medicines, the court majority said.\u003cbr/\u003eNone of the other 49 states has a similar law.\u003cbr/\u003eGregory Castanias, a lawyer at the Jones Day Law Firm in Washington, said the ruling's significance \"is that it upholds, against Federal government's opposition, the Oregon death of dignity act.  And that act now provides a pattern for other states should they so choose to make legal under careful circumstances, physician assisted suicide.\"\u003cbr/\u003eOregon is one of four places in the world that legally authorises active assistance in dying of patients, according to the Euthanasia Research \u0026amp; Guidance Organisation (ERGO). \u003cbr/\u003eIn the Netherlands, voluntary and doctor-assisted euthanasia had been permitted by the courts since 1984 and formally allowed under the law since April 2002. \u003cbr/\u003eBelgium and Switzerland also permit euthanasia. But the conditions under which euthanasia is performed differ in each place the practice is permitted.\u003cbr/\u003eCountries with specific laws against assisted suicide include Norway, where the practice carries a criminal charge of accessory to murder, according to ERGO. \u003cbr/\u003eRussia sentenced two teens in 2004 for attempting to kill a woman they say, asked them to kill her, in what was described as the country's first euthanasia case. \u003cbr/\u003eThere is no specific law against the practice in most countries.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Bush administration improperly tried to use a drug law to punish Oregon doctors who prescribe lethal doses of prescription medicines, the court majority said.\u003cbr/\u003eOregon's law covers only extremely sick people, those with incurable diseases, whom at least two doctors agree have six months or less to live and are of a sound mind.\u003cbr/\u003eThe court's ruling was not a final say on federal authority to override state doctor-assisted suicide laws. Only a declaration that the current Federal scheme did not permit that. However, it could still have ramifications outside of Oregon.\u003cbr/\u003eAt the White House, spokesman Scott McClellan said the Bush administration was \"disappointed at the decision\", but that \"the president (US President George W. Bush) remains fully committed to building a culture of life.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAnd Cory May, special counsel at the American Centre for Law and Justice said, \"the very idea that a physician would be able to prescribe medication to end someone's life, we think is a do not go area.\"\u003cbr/\u003eIn Oregon, activists and clients celebrated at the \"Compassion \u0026amp; Choices of Oregon\" office after the Supreme Court ruling upheld the state's one-of-a-kind assisted suicide law. \u003cbr/\u003eSeveral terminally ill patients were on hand including Char Andrews who was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2000.\u003cbr/\u003eAlthough she's not in constant pain now, she could get worse at any time and is happy she has the option of ending her life if she begins to suffer. \u003cbr/\u003eCompassion \u0026amp; Choices volunteers Scott Rice and Julie McMurchie also celebrated the decision.\u003cbr/\u003eRice's wife and McMurchie's mother are two of the more than 200 seriously ill people who ended 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