Cruzan: no rights violated

In its September/October 1990 issue, the Hastings Center Report published six brief essays with a short introduction by Courtney S. Campbell under the collective title of "Cruzan: clear and convincing?" These articles present a range of responses from participants, parents, constitutional scholars, and caregivers to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health (June 25, 1990). Legal scholar John A. Robertson argues that Cruzan was rightly decided, not because persons like Nancy Cruzan in a persistent vegetative state should be sustained indefinitely, but because sustaining them does not violate any party's constitutional rights.