Following The Paper Trail

"I think it's important not to have too narrow a view of protecting personal rights. The right that was protected in the assisted-suicide case was the right of the people, through their legislatures, to articulate their own views on the policies that should apply in those cases of terminating life, and not to have the court interfering in those policy decisions. That's an important right."

-Judge John Roberts -- then a private attorney,
Commenting PBS's The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer
Following a 1997 assisted suicide decision by the Supreme Court

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