The citizens of Oregon authorized the establishment of the Oregon Death with Dignity Act (ODWDA), which protected physicians from prosecution under criminal law and from litigation under civil law for prescribing drugs for terminally ill patients who wished to commit suicide. The drugs would have to be prescribed under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA).
The U.S. atto r ney general (AG) stated that any physician who prescribed such drugs with the intent to have those drugs used for suicide could lose his or her med i cal license. The attorney general argued that drugs controlled by the CSA could not be used for suicide because suicide is not a legit i mate medical purpose.
A lawsuit was filed by several interested pa r ties in the federal district court in Oregon which ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, and which then enjoined the AG from e n forcing his interpretation of the CSA.
Could this case be used as precedent to promote or to fight government-enforced population control as imagined by Axel Madsen in Unisave? Explain. [See Gonzales, Attorney General v. Oregon, 126 S.Ct . 904 (United States Supreme Court).]