Assertion: euthanasia's right | /r/CapableOf | refuse treatment
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text: Recognition of the right to refuse treatment gives a way for passive euthanasia.
text: In 1996 the Second Circuit Court of Appeals argued that New York’s law forbidding PAS violated the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Terminally ill patients dependent on life support had a right to refuse such treatment, allowing them to die; but terminally ill patients not dependent on such treatment to prolong their lives, though similarly situated in terms of the burdens of the dying process, could not exercise their right to end life due to the state’s ban on PAS.
text: Finally, the Church teaches that a patient has a right to refuse certain treatments that would merely prolong life with no hope of improvement, but high likelihood of additional pain or risk to the patient’s situation.
text: These decisions are based on increasing acceptance of the doctrine that patients possess a right to refuse treatment.
text: The law provides that every patient has the right to refuse treatment or to request that ongoing treatment be stopped.
text: It can be hard as a doctor to accept this decision, but knowledge of the right to refuse treatment would ease many of the concerns felt by those who fear being kept alive by artificial means against their wishes.
text: The American Hospital Association adopts a "Patient's Bill of Rights" which recognizes the right of patients to refuse treatment.
text: Congress passes the Patient Self-Determination Act, requiring hospitals that receive federal funds to tell patients that they have a right to demand or refuse treatment.
text: Although the court did find that a right to refuse treatment could be found in the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and did not prohibit the courts from looking in other areas for this right (Adams, et.