Part one of term paper
The Supreme Court is presently considering whether states may make it a crime for doctors to assist in a patient's suicide. The issue is whether such laws violate the Constitutional rights of people. In deciding these appeals, the Supreme Court must first resolve the big question: Whose life is it, anyways? Does your life belong to God, as th ...

Part two of term paper
... rights, asserting that your life is a gift from God and that you are put on earth to fulfill a divine plan. Not surprisingly, therefore, conservatives become furious at the very idea of suicide. According to them, one who decides to "play God" by causing his own death, or assisting in the death of another, insults his Maker and invites eternal damnation. The Supreme Court's conservative bloc would never explicitly adopt such reasoning, because the First Amendment forbids the establishment of rel ...