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Part III considers the scope of the constitutional right to refuse treatment. It examines the American courts' attitude toward the state's countervailing interests and concludes that the constitutional right to refuse treatment generally outweighs the state interests. It finds, above all, that a competent patient's constitutional right to refuse treatment is protected regardless of the patient's life-expectancy or prognosis, and that refusal of treatment is not attempted suicide.1905? SC decisions have been overturned of review--Roe v. Wade is one that I think will be overturned at some point. Is this particular decision currently valid?