Medical aid in dying was enacted in New Jersey on August 1, 2019.
On January 9, 2024, Assemblymember Herb Conaway introduced bill A1880, which waives or reduces the waiting period between requests for medical aid in dying if the person is not expected to survive that time frame. A companion bill (S3588) was introduced by Senator John Burzichelli on Sept. 19, 2024. The bills were referred to the Assembly Health Committee and Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee, respectively.
Threats to the law: A bill that would repeal NJ’s Medical Aid in Dying Act (A407), and a bill making it a crime of the first degree to coerce a patient to request medical aid in dying or forge a patient’s request for medical aid in dying (A406) were both introduced in the 2024-2025 session. Both bills were referred to the Assembly Judiciary Committee.
New Jersey Death with Dignity is a 501c3 organization that provides services, education, and end-of-life advocacy
By more than a 2-to-one margin (63% to 29%) of New Jersey residents feel that allowing doctors to legally prescribe lethal drugs to help terminally ill patients end their own lives should be an end-of-life option in the state. See more polling data.
Compassion & Choices elogio a un tribunal superior de Nueva Jersey que a última hora del miércoles otorgó una moción del Procurador General Estatal Gurbir Grewal para desestimar la demanda, Glassman v. Grewal, que busca revocar la ley del estado de 2019, que permite la ayuda médica para morir. La ley permite que los adultos…
An excerpt from The News Journal article, “Dying patients deserve to use NJ aid-in-dying law, state says in arguing against lawsuit,” published March 24, 2020: A doctor, pharmacist and cancer patient trying to overturn New Jersey’s aid-in-dying law are motivated by personal beliefs and their legal rights have not been violated, so their case…
An excerpt from ROI-NJ‘s article, “A day like no other: The first time I helped one of my patients die,” published Feb. 5, 2020: That recent unseasonably warm January day — the one where it hit 60 degrees — was ordinary in many ways for me: I went to the bookstore and bought a…
This has been a turbulent time for the residents of New Jersey. A New Jersey appellate court granted state Attorney General Gurbir Grewal’s request to overturn a temporary restraining order that had suspended the Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act because although the state statute contains regulations, there are no administrative rules…
On Aug. 8, one week after the New Jersey’s Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act took effect on Aug. 1, a lone doctor who is also a rabbi filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the law that Compassion & Choices campaigned for seven long years for the legislature to pass it. His…
On Aug. 8, one week after the New Jersey’s Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act took effect on Aug. 1, a lone doctor who is also a rabbi filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the law that Compassion & Choices campaigned for seven long years for the legislature to pass it. His…
Compassion & Choices praised a New Jersey appellate court today for overturning a superior court’s temporary restraining order that had suspended the state’s new medical aid-in-dying law. The court’s ruling stated: “Having reviewed the record against the applicable law, we conclude the court abused its discretion in awarding preliminary injunctive relief…Accordingly, we dissolve the restraints…
Compassion & Choices elogió hoy a un tribunal de apelaciones de Nueva Jersey por revocar la orden de restricción temporal de un tribunal superior que había suspendido la nueva ley de ayuda médica para morir del estado. El fallo del tribunal declaró: “Habiendo revisado el registro contra la ley aplicable, concluimos que el tribunal abusó…
Compassion & Choices urgió al médico que, sólo, presentó una demanda para anular la Ley de Ayuda Médica para Morir de Nueva Jersey y al asambleísta que autorizó la revocación de la ley para que desistan en sus esfuerzos, ya que los enfermos terminales de Nueva Jersey que no tienen derecho a la enmienda y…
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