Just 33 used New Jersey’s medical-aid-in-dying law last year. Pandemic health access could be one reason.
Most of the patients who used the law were white and well-educated.
N.J. Gov. Phil Murphy signs the Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act Friday, April 12, 2019 at the New Jersey Statehouse in Trenton, N.J. New Jersey is the seventh state to enact a law permitting terminally ill patients to seek life ending medication.Read moreNew Jersey Office of the Governor / AP
