Focus (Forum & Focus)
Aug. 17, 2007
Creating Rights
Forum Column - By Charles S. Doskow - Do you have a constitutional right to keep yourself alive? The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit says no.
By Charles S. Doskow
When Steve McQueen, a reigning movie star, was diagnosed with cancer in 1978, the disease had already spread beyond the point where medicine could save his life. After exhausting all approved treatments, a desperate McQueen traveled to Mexico for treatment with Laetrile, a drug that had not only never been approved as a cancer remedy by the Food and Drug Administration, but which was also wide...
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