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No right to experimental drugs for dying patients: Supreme Court

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Terminally ill patients have no constitutional right to gain access to experimental drugs that have yet to win federal approval, the US Supreme Court ruled Monday.

The top court refused to hear a case brought by the Abigail Alliance for Better Access to Developmental Drugs, which accuses the government's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of violating the legal rights of the patients.

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Maybe the Supreme Court should brush up on the 10th Amendment:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

I fail to read the section of the Constitution that mentions either the FDA or allowing the federal government to regulate drugs.

Also, if we are going to use privacy as an excuse to legalize abortion, wouldn't the same reasoning hold for experimental procedures and drugs as well?

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Reply#1 - Tue Jan 15, 2008 11:01 AM EST
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