Generally, in America, the practice of physician-assisted suicide is illegal and physicians are liable to face the loss of medicinal practice and imprisonment. ... " In the Colonial period - the 1600's - many people from various persecuted religions in Europe chose to escape to America, and the physicians within these groups, carried with them the belief that assisted suicide was immoral. ... On December 10th, 1828, New York was the first state that specifically prohibits assisted suicide and it initiated a new law for America, the 14th amendment, to condemn the acts of assisting...

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