Physician-assisted suicide is which of the following according to the material?

• A. Constitutional.
• B. Unconstitutional.
• C. Legal in limited circumstances.
• D. Permitted if the patient requests it.

Answer: (B)

There isn’t a constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide. The material teaches that the Constitution does not guarantee a patient the liberty to end life with a doctor’s help, and the Supreme Court has upheld state authority to prohibit such practice. States have legitimate interests in preserving life and protecting vulnerable individuals, and that allows them to criminalize or tightly regulate physician-assisted suicide. Because there is no federal constitutional right to PAS, its status is not based on a constitutional entitlement; any allowances come from state law, not the Constitution. That’s why the best answer is that physician-assisted suicide is unconstitutional.