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Court strikes down Georgia's assisted-suicide law

Article posted on Thursday 09 February 2012 by DWDnsw

Georgia's Supreme Court has struck down a law that restricts assisted suicides because it violates free speech rights.

The court unanimously agreed Monday to overturn a provision in the 1994 state law that makes it illegal to promote assisted suicide and then help carry it out, reported the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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