One of New York’s top medical associations reiterated its opposition to assisted suicide as lawmakers debate a bill to allow the practice.

New Jersey became the eighth state in the country to legalize assisted suicide on Friday.

Assisted suicide is dead in the water in Maryland after the state Senate failed to advance a legalization bill.

New Jersey is on the verge of becoming the eighth state to allow doctors to give lethal medications to sick patients.

Assisted suicide opponents are accusing Democrats in New Jersey of manipulating the legislative process to pass the controversial bill.

One of the nation’s largest doctors’ lobbies has retracted its opposition to assisted suicide.

Delegates from the American Academy of Family Physicians, which represents more than 130,000 doctors nationwide, voted to change the group’s stance to “engaged neutrality” on the question of whether physicians should be able to prescribe lethal medications to patients. The resolution was reached at the organization’s Congress of Delegates held last week in New Orleans. AAFP president Michael Munger said in a statement posted to the group’s website that the resolution was designed to help doctors care for their patients.

A California judge rejected a bid from assisted suicide supporters to reverse a ruling that threatens to invalidate the 2015 law.