PUBHLTH 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 51: Jack Kevorkian, Ozone Depletion, Ozone Layer
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Lecture: eligibility varies, determined by states state children"s health insurance program (schip) for families earning too much to qualify for medicaid, but too little to afford private coverage. Roe v. wade - abortion illegal until 1973 in most states, women have a constitutional right to an abortion, at least in the first trimester. Administered a lethal drug, because people had a "right to die". Advocating the right to refuse extraordinary measures intended to prolong someone"s life when they are terminally ill or comatose. Right to life - the right to life is a moral principle based on the belief that a human being has the right to live and, in particular, should not to be killed by another human being. The concept of a right to life is central to debates on the issues of capital punishment, war, abortion, euthanasia, and justifiable homicide.
