December 2014

December 17, 2014 By: Susan K. Livio …The Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee voted 5-3 to let the “Aid in Dying” bill to proceed to the full 40-member Senate, but did so in a way that registered committee members concern and uncertainty by approving it “without recommendation.”   TRENTON — After more than …

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December 9, 2014 Despite leading disability rights organizations’ long history of opposition to legalization of assisted suicide, the New Jersey Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee held a hearing yesterday on the state’s proposed assisted suicide bill without inviting any representatives of the disability community as witnesses. People with disabilities, who are often …

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