Physician-Assisted Suicide Not Legal in Montana

Compassion & Choices, has claimed that more than one Montanan has used physician-assisted suicide since a Montana Supreme Court ruling December 31, 2010. Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, emphasizes that the ruling in Baxter v. State, did not “legalize” physician-assisted suicide in Montana. Instead, Baxter held that a physician accused of homicide for killing a patient could assert a “consent of the victim defense.” LifeSiteNews, read analysis here.