Stepanovich, when with the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in support of the constitutionality of a New York ban on physician-assisted suicide. The Court ruled that preventing doctors from assisting their patients, even those terminally ill and/or in great pain, was a legitimate state interest that was well within the authority of the state to regulate. As a matter of law, there was no constitutional guarantee of a “right to die.”
