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Montana third state to legalize assisted suicide
Ruling states that terminally ill can self-administer drugs to end own life
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HELENA, Mont. - A Montana judge has issued a ruling saying residents of the state have the right to doctor-assisted suicide.
The ruling issued late Friday by state District Court Judge Dorothy McCarter makes Montana the third state in which doctor-assisted suicide is legal.
The judge said Saturday she ruled in a lawsuit filed by a terminally ill Billings man, four physicians and a nonprofit patients rights group, Compassion & Choices.
McCarter's ruling holds that mentally competent, terminally ill Montanans have a right to obtain medications that can be self-administered to bring about a peaceful death if they find their suffering to be unbearable.
The ruling also says physicians can prescribe such medication without fear of criminal prosecution.
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