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The Right to Life, Fight to Die

Elizabeth Bouvia

Evan Borochina, Nicole Calderone,

Tanner Nivins & Qiwen Wu

Main players, their point of view & the terms that apply to each:

Video Interview

Elizabeth Bouvia

  • Quotes
  • Quality of life
  • Counseling
  • Choice
  • Ethical terms

Medical Providers/Community

  • Quesioned "reasoning" for suicide
  • Ethical Terms

Richard Bovia

Disability Community/

Paul Longmore

  • Media
  • Elizabeth Was a victim
  • Critiques an inadequate system that forces terrible, desperate decisions
  • The disability community felt Bouvia was wrong and actively tired to change her mind
  • Ethical Terms

Court System & Judges

  • Judge Hews: Denied
  • Superme Court Appeal: Denied
  • Judge Warren Deering: Denied
  • California Court of appeal: Ruled in Elizabeth's favor

Terms

Locus of Authority

Informed consent

confidentiality

Paternalism

Autonomy

Non-maleficence

  • His personal Background
  • Conversed by mail
  • each letter took her 4 to 5 hours]
  • August 25, 1982
  • The Back & Fourth
  • The Final Draw

Medical History

  • Struggle with Cerebral Palsy (CP) from birth
  • CP is a movement disorder caused by damage to the brain before, during, or soon after birth. Effects 1.5-4 per 1,000 live births
  • Never had use of legs, but had limited mobility in facial muscles and right hand
  • Richard Scott was her trained physician and lawyer
  • Trip to Mexico

References

Personal History

Impact on Society

Final Outcome

Johnson Mary (1997). Right to Life, Fight to Die: The Elizabeth Bouvia saga.Broadreach Training and resources. http://www.normemma.com/advocacy/ebouvia.htm

McCarrick, P. (1992). Active Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 2(1), 79-100

Paneth N, Hont T, Korzeniewski S. (2006). The descriptive epidemeology of cerebral palsy. Clinics in Perinatology, 33(2), 251-267.

Pence, G. E (2011). Medical Ethics: Accounts of Ground-Breaking Cases. New York: The McGraw Hills Company.

  • Extent of disability
  • Parents divorce
  • Angel View Crippled Children's Foundation home
  • On her own
  • In home support services
  • Schooling
  • Debating whether or not a competent adult human has the right to refuse medical treatment and die.
  • Patient's autonomy instead of the doctor's primary Locus of Authority.
  • California Court of Appeal granted her request to starve herself without intervention
  • Despite this, Elizabeth didn't go through with starving herself because it was too difficult to do so
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