Disability and Physician-Assisted Suicide

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Abstract
On January 8, 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Vacco v. Quill 1 and Washington v. Glucksberg, 2 the two cases concerning whether a state may prohibit persons in the terminal stage of an illness from obtaining the assistance of their physicians in ending their lives. A protest by a few hundred people with disabilities, which took place in front of the courthouse that day, raised related questions: whether a right to physician-assisted suicide is in the interest of people with disabilities and whether the majority of people with disabilities are opposed to the recognition of such a right. . . .