Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
Judge Bumb dismissed the case by the assisted suicide lobby and two plaintiffs who were challenging the right of New Jersey to restrict their assisted suicide law to state residents. DiFilippo reported:
A federal judge has refused to strike down the residency requirement in New Jersey’s physician-assisted suicide law, a court loss advocates declared “a temporary roadblock.”Judge Bumb refused to block enforcement of the residency requirement and stated:
U.S. District Court Judge Renée Marie Bumb on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by two terminally ill women from Pennsylvania and Delaware, rejecting their claim that the residency requirement in New Jersey’s Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act is unconstitutional.
“The residence requirement makes sense: While medical aid in dying is permitted in New Jersey, it is indistinguishable from the criminal act of assisted suicide in neighboring states,”
“By limiting the pool of eligible patients to State residents, the requirement is rationally related to the legitimate objective of protecting from out-of-state liability providers and advocates who assist terminally ill patients in seeking medical aid in dying.”
The fact that the assisted suicide lobby considers the decision to be a "temporary roadblock" indicates that they intend to continue pressuring New Jersey to expand their assisted suicide law.
In October 2021, the assisted suicide lobby group, Compassion and Choices, and Dr Nicholas Gideonse, an assisted suicide doctor, launched a court case challenging the Oregon assisted suicide residency requirement. Instead of defending the residency requirement, the Oregon Government, on March 29, 2022 agreed to remove the residency requirement.
A February 2023 article by James Reinl for the Daily Mail reported that Dr Nicholas Gideonse has opened the first assisted suicide clinic in Oregon to prescribe lethal assisted suicide drugs for death tourists. At least one person from Texas and an east coast resident has died by assisted suicide in Oregon.
In August, 2022, Compassion and Choices launched a lawsuit on behalf of a Connecticut woman and a Vermont doctor challenging Vermont's assisted suicide residency requirement.
Withdrawing the assisted suicide law residency requirement allows for assisted suicide tourism. Every American is eligible to die by assisted suicide in the states of Oregon and Vermont.
In October 2021, the assisted suicide lobby group, Compassion and Choices, and Dr Nicholas Gideonse, an assisted suicide doctor, launched a court case challenging the Oregon assisted suicide residency requirement. Instead of defending the residency requirement, the Oregon Government, on March 29, 2022 agreed to remove the residency requirement.
A February 2023 article by James Reinl for the Daily Mail reported that Dr Nicholas Gideonse has opened the first assisted suicide clinic in Oregon to prescribe lethal assisted suicide drugs for death tourists. At least one person from Texas and an east coast resident has died by assisted suicide in Oregon.
In August, 2022, Compassion and Choices launched a lawsuit on behalf of a Connecticut woman and a Vermont doctor challenging Vermont's assisted suicide residency requirement.
Withdrawing the assisted suicide law residency requirement allows for assisted suicide tourism. Every American is eligible to die by assisted suicide in the states of Oregon and Vermont.
The New Jersey 2023 assisted suicide report states that there were 101 reported assisted suicide deaths in 2023 up from 91 in 2022. Assisted suicide started in New Jersey on April 12, 2019.
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