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Appeals court rules New Jersey’s medically assisted suicide law is for residents only
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that New Jersey can restrict doctor-assisted suicide to residents, citing states' rights to regulate this policy, with 11 states permitting it.
- On Friday, the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected challenges to New Jersey's residency rule, with U.S. Circuit Judge Stephanos Bibas acknowledging how fraught end-of-life decisions can be.
- The case was brought by a Delaware woman with stage 4 lymphoma who died after oral arguments, with other plaintiffs including a Pennsylvania woman with metastatic breast cancer and a New Jersey doctor.
- Procedural safeguards include two requests, one written and signed by two witnesses, and patients must self-administer medication while being offered palliative care under New Jersey law.
- A lower court dismissed the complaint and the appeals court upheld that reasoning, finding assisted suicide is not a fundamental privilege states must afford non-residents; the opinion noted states may experiment with such policies and other states can keep assisted suicide a crime.
- In addition to New Jersey, the District of Columbia and 10 other states permit terminal assisted suicide, while Oregon and Vermont authorize it for everyone and Delaware will begin Jan. 1.
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Appeals court rules New Jersey's medically assisted suicide law is for residents only
A federal appeals court has ruled that a New Jersey law that permits terminally ill people to seek life-ending drugs applies only to residents of the state and not those from beyond its borders.
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