by Jeremy Hainsworth
British Columbia's appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling that found Canada's law against physician-assisted suicide to be unconstitutional.
The court ruled in a split decision Thursday that a judge erred last year when she found sections of the Criminal Code that prohibit assisted suicide to be an unconstitutional violation of the charter rights of gravely ill Canadians.
The case will now likely go to the Canadian Supreme Court, which last considered the issue of assisted suicide in 1993.
Explore further: Canadian doctor makes posthumous assisted suicide plea (Update)
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