“Aid in dying” in New Jersey

Guests: Nicholas Pugliese, Jennifer Ruggiero, Sean Crowley

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy is expected to sign legislation that will allow terminally-ill patients with a prognosis of less than 6 months to live to end their life using a lethal drug. That would make NJ the 8^th state that gives the terminally ill this end of life choice. Today, we’ll talk about the details of the Aid in Dying bill with NICHOLAS PUGLIESE, Statehouse reporter for The Record and NorthJersey.com. Then, we’ll talk with JENNIFER RUGGIERO, Secretary of the Secretariat for Family and Pastoral Life in the Diocese of Metuchen, who opposes the bill and SEAN CROWLEY of Compassion and Choices, who is in favor of the bill. We’ll get their perspectives on the details of the legislation as well as the broader philosophical arguments surrounding the issue.