[techweenie]

Yes, Oregon's "Death with Dignity" law was upheld, but look who the dissenters were -- the same activists that Alito will (probably) join. Big government types who think the Federal government belongs in the doctor-patient relationship.

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Supreme Court Upholds Oregon Assisted Suicide Law
Bush Administration Sought to Punish Doctors Who Helped Patients Die

By ADRIENNE MAND LEWIN


Jan. 17, 2006 — Rejecting the Bush administration's argument that doctors should be punished for helping terminally ill patients die, the Supreme Court today upheld Oregon's physician-assisted suicide law.

In a 6-3 vote, justices said a federal drug law does not override the 1997 Oregon law used to end the lives of more than 200 seriously ill people. New Chief Justice John Roberts backed the administration, dissenting for the first time.

Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for himself, Roberts and Justice Clarence Thomas, said that federal officials have the power to regulate the doling out of medicine.

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So the power of the Federal government appears destined to grow under the SC when Alito joins.

Will somebody explain to me how this trend is "conservative?"