Remarks made by Supreme Court nominee John Roberts eight years ago indicate he has a view on judicial restraint shared by pro-life groups.
In two 1997 cases, the Supreme Court upheld laws against assisted suicide, ruling that no right to assisted suicide exists. But the Court did allow that states could decide whether to allow assisted suicides to take place.
In an interview that year on a PBS news program, Roberts was asked about the Court’s decision. "I think it’s important not to have too narrow a view of protecting personal rights,” he said.
"The right that was protected in the assisted-suicide case was the right of the people through their legislatures to articulate their own views on the policies that should apply in those cases of terminating life, and not to have the court interfering in those policy decisions. That’s an important right.”
Pro-life groups applaud that view, which would favor upholding pro-life laws approved by federal and state legislators.
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