The Appellate Division ruled that policy-based challenges to the state’s law allowing medical aid in dying—brought by a terminally ill patient, a doctor, and a pharmacist against acting Attorney General Matt Platkin—would be properly directed at the political branches of government rather than the courts.

Judge Arnold L. Natali, in his written opinion for the court, stated that the Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act, signed into law by Gov. Phil Murphy in 2019, was the result of ”nearly a decade of deliberations.”

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