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Abstract
From contraception to cloning, when the progress of medicine collides with complex ethical and legal issues, the reflexive cry from readily identifiable quarters about the newest medical advance is “Ban it!” Such a collision is occurring as the US Supreme Court considers two cases from opposite coasts of the country that address such a complex fundamental issue-the right of competent terminally ill adults to seek physician assistance in choosing the time and place of their death. This collision between life-sustaining medical technologies and life-ending medical decisions has profound ethical and legal implications.