Ruling: Doctor-assisted suicide legal in Montana
January 1st, 2010Bloomberg News/Business Week, AP/New York Times:
Montana’s Supreme Court has ruled that physician-assisted suicide is legal in the state, and that doctors cannot be prosecuted for helping mentally competent people with terminal illnesses to end their lives.
The ruling makes Montana the third state, after Oregon and Washington, to allow the practice.
“We find nothing in Montana Supreme Court precedent or Montana statutes indicating that physician aid in dying is against public policy,” the high court said in its opinion.

