Georgia’s assisted suicide law faced attacks on two fronts last week, as a Forsyth County judge heard arguments from lawyers asking him to declare the statute unconstitutional on the heels of a similar request that was filed in federal court.
Both actions involve the Final Exit Network, an organization that says it provides advice to “mentally competent adults” who are considering ending their lives “when they suffer from a fatal or irreversible illness or intractable pain, when their quality of life is personally unacceptable, and the future holds only hopelessness and misery.”
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