Compassion and Choices Suffers Damaging Court Loss in New Jersey

By Ian McIntosh 

For some it may be unthinkable at any time of the year, let alone during the holiday season, that there is a cadre of relentless professional assisted suicide advocacy organizations seeking more efficient ways for people with disabilities to kill themselves during this national moment when Medicare, SNAP, and “streamlined” federal departments (i.e. HUD ) poised to present increased difficulties to for our country’s most vulnerable population to live as 2026 looms.

Against this harrowing backdrop, some great news: Our co-plaintiff’s sister organization, the Patients Rights Action Fund (PRAF), provided the following encouraging update:

 “A federal appeals court has delivered a damaging blow to the Compassion and Choices lawsuit seeking to eliminate New Jersey’s requirement that only residents have ability to request lethal drugs under its assisted suicide law. The denial of this request upholds the decision by a district court judge earlier this year to maintain New Jersey’s residency requirement.

New Jersey Doctors can't provide Assisted Suicide to out-of-state patients

PHILADELPHIA (CN) — A New Jersey doctor can’t offer suicide services to terminally ill patients living outside the Garden State, a Third Circuit appeals panel ruled on Friday.

The decision comes after New Jersey physician Dr. Paul Bryman carried on a fight to offer the practice to out-of-state patients.

In a news release Friday, Bryman lamented the court’s decision.

“I am deeply disappointed by today’s ruling,” Bryman said. “Terminal patients outside New Jersey should have the option of medical aid in dying without having to travel long distances.”

In 2019, New Jersey enacted the Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act, legalizing physician-assisted suicide via pills for terminally ill patients.

The law contains several stipulations. The patient must have a prognosis of six months or fewer to live, and they must live in New Jersey.

New Jersey AG Investigates Group Accused of Trying to Harvest Organs from Patient Showing Signs of Life

Candace Hathaway, 12/03/25

'We're never really giving patients a chance.'

The New Jersey attorney general's office confirmed to Blaze News that it has launched an investigation into the NJ Sharing Network, an organ procurement organization, after nearly a dozen whistleblowers accused the group of numerous offenses, including allegedly covering up an attempted organ recovery from a patient who showed signs of life.

The NJ Sharing Network, a tax-exempt organization, was also accused of fraudulently billing Medicare, skipping hundreds of patients on the wait list, harvesting organs without appropriate consent, operating a fraudulent taxpayer-funded research program, and creating a culture of fear and retaliation.

'The only way patients will be protected is when law enforcement gets involved and prosecutes criminal activity.'

Town Reverses Course after Residents Rage Against Ban on Constitution and US Flag at Hearings

Officials apologized for a 'misunderstanding,' but critics say their intent was clear.

Officials of a New Jersey town now say that a ban on "props" at public comments during hearings does not apply to the Constitution and U.S. flags after the issue led to nationwide outrage and controversy.

As Blaze Media previously reported, Edison Township made national headlines when a man was escorted by police out of a hearing for carrying a small American flag while arguing against the decorum ban. While the ban doesn't mention the Constitution or flags, township officials claimed that both fell under the designation of "props" banned during comments made at council hearings.

'We are all proud Americans who believe in the principles, morals, and values the American flag represents.'