Supremes to ill: Go ahead and die already!
No right to experimental drugs for dying patients: Supreme Court
Terminally ill patients have no constitutional right to gain access to experimental drugs that have yet to win federal approval, the US Supreme Court ruled Monday.
The top court refused to hear a case brought by the Abigail Alliance for Better Access to Developmental Drugs, which accuses the government’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of violating the legal rights of the patients.
“Although terminally ill patients desperately need curative treatments … their deaths can certainly be hastened by the use of a potentially toxic drug with no proven therapeutic benefit,” the appeals court had said.</em>
And this is the supreme courts business how, exactly?
