Oregon Revisits Assisted-Suicide Debate Residents of the Only State with Right-to-Die Law Will Vote Again This Fall on Its Validity

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A clear majority of Americans surveyed agree that doctors should be allowed to hasten death under some circumstances.

But in the privacy of the polling booth (or in the stillness of prayer), it appears to be another matter. And especially when a loved one is involved, most people still are very hesitant to accept physician-assisted suicide as something that should be legally or morally acceptable.

Or to put it more simply, the head and the heart may be reaching different conclusions on this profound issue. In June, the United States Supreme Court ruled that there is no constitutional "right to die." But the justices left it up to the states to pass laws banning - …