Without such medical assistance these patients cannot hasten their deaths in a certain and humane manner. Plaintiffs repeat and reallege paragraphs 1 through 17 of their Complaint. The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees the liberty of mentally competent, terminally ill adults with no chance of recovery to make decisions about the end of their lives, including the right to choose to hasten inevitable death with suitable physician-prescribed drugs and thereby avoid pain and suffering. The right to make this choice is a fundamental right and is entitled to the strongest degree of constitutional protection. The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees the liberty of physicians to practice medicine consistent with their best professional judgment, including using their skills and powers to facilitate the exercise of the decision of competent, terminally ill adults to hasten inevitable death by prescribing suitable medications for the patient to self-administer for that purpose.
Plaintiffs have no adequate remedy at law and face imminent and irreparable loss of their rights.
Plaintiffs repeat and reallege paragraphs 1 through 17 of their Complaint.