11.   Oregon voters rejected a proposed repeal of a three-year-old initiative legalizing assisted suicide.

12.   Oregon voters will decide in November whether they want their state to be the first to legalize assisted suicide.

13.   People with AIDS used to be among the most vocal advocates for legalizing assisted suicide.

14.   The Clinton administration is devising plans to undercut laws legalizing assisted suicide in Oregon and medical marijuana in California.

15.   The effect of the ruling on efforts to legalize assisted suicide at the state level remains to be seen.

16.   The judge noted that voters in Michigan last November defeated by a wide margin a measure that would have legalized assisted suicide.

17.   The Oregon laws that have legalized assisted suicide, for example, honor that principle.

18.   The question of legalizing assisted suicide is going before the U.S. Supreme Court.

19.   Belgium enacted a similar law late last year, but the Swiss parliament rejected a motion to legalize assisted suicides, which are now tolerated.

20.   Keeler, Baltimore archbishop, opened his comments by cheering the decision in Maine against legalizing assisted suicide.