BUDAPEST, April 29, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Hungary’s constitutional court has rejected a bid to legalize assisted suicide, on grounds that terminally ill patients can already refuse medical care, under the country’s so-called “passive euthanasia” laws, if they wish. “The current state of affairs is not unconstitutional,” said presiding judge Janos Nemeth. “We have considered international examples and euthanasia has only been made legal recently in Belgium, in the Netherlands and in a state in the United States [Oregon].” He said the foreign examples did not make a convincing case for adopting the practice in Hungary. For newswire coverage: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030428/hl_afp/hungary_euthanasia_030428140953