Vacco v. Quill
Supreme Court of the United States (1996)

TABLE OF CONTENTS..............................i

TABLE OF AUTHORITIES..........................ii

INTEREST OF THE AMICUS CURIAE..................1

ARGUMENT:......................................5

1. LEGALIZING ASSISTED SUICIDE, IN ANY
   FORM, COULD LEAD TO TRAGIC ABUSE..........7

2. THE DECISIONS BELOW, IF AFFIRMED, ARE
   LIKELY TO LEAD TO A BROAD EXPANSION
   OF THE RIGHT TO ASSISTED SUICIDE
   AND EUTHANASIA............................9
   1. The Ninth Circuit's Candid
      Acknowledgments.....................10

   2. Implications of the Second
      Circuit's Equal Protection
      Analysis............................15

3. ASSIGNING DIMINISHED LEGAL PROTECTION
   TO A LIFE OF DIMINISHED MEDICAL
   QUALITY FOLLOWS DANGEROUS HISTORICAL
   PRECEDENT................................21