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On Thursday, February 7, 2019, the New Jersey Senate Committee on Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens, held a hearing on the so-called, “Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act” (A 1504/S1072). If passed in both the full Assembly and the full Senate and signed by the governor the measure would decriminalize assisting in a suicide for a particular group of people – those facing a terminal illness of six months or less to live – allowing these patients to request a lethal prescription in order to self-administer medication to end their lives.

On the days surrounding January 22, 2019, many of us traveled to Washington, D.C., and to the Statehouse in Trenton to rally for life in commemoration of the 46th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion in our land. We gathered to pray, sadly acknowledging the horrific reality that abortion remains legal in our country, taking the lives of more than 60 million of our brothers and sisters since 1973.