22. this billboard raised by a group called final exit network is getting plenty of attention and discussion. the sign reads my life, my death, my choice. not only does this group promote the idea of giving terminally ill people the right to end their lives but for a membership fee, you can actually learn how to do it. what do those driving by the billboard think? it s not a good billboard. i think they should take that down. my life, my death, my choice, not a good message to be sending out to kids. i don t think so. well, the newark archdiocese has spoken out against the billboard and the final network s message. taking you live to the white house now, where the president of the united states is getting ready to step up to the mike. he is going to be talking about efforts to get unemployment insurance extended. let s listen in.
green shows us what the fuss is about. my life, my death, my choice. that s the message looming large over a busy new jersey highway. part of a national campaign sponsored by the final exit network, right to die group. what are we trying to do is to let people know that we are here. that there are choices out there. bob levin founded the new jersey chapter after watching his mother and first wife die following long painful battles with cancer. he says the billboard aimed only at adults were suffering from incurable disease. we think they have the right to choose the end of their life. on their own terms. however they want to do it. the archdiocese of newark, new jersey, is blasting the billboard, saying the message is not consistent with the beliefs of the faith. it contradicts everything that catholic teaching says. our lives are to be respected and cherished. one psychologist for society of prevention of teen suicide calls this sign irresponsible, saying you can t contr
large over a busy new jersey highway. part of a national campaign sponsored by the final exit network, right to die group. what are we trying to do is to let people know that we are here. that there are choices out there. bob levin founded the new jersey chapter after watching his mother and first wife die following long painful battles with cancer. he says the billboard aimed only at adults were suffering from incurable disease. we think they have the right to choose the end of their life. on their own terms. however they want to do it. the archdiocese of newark, new jersey, is blasting the billboard, saying the message is not consistent with the beliefs of the faith. it contradicts everything that catholic teaching says. our lives are to be respected and cherished. one psychologist for society of prevention of teen suicide calls this sign irresponsible, saying you can t control who sees it. that the message may push the depressed over the edge.
jon. jon: there is a new national billboard campaign out, and it is not sitting too well with the catholic church, a group called final exit network is putting up signs like this one essentially telling adults that have terminal illnesses that it s okay to end a life of constant pain our religion correspondent marine corporal cesar laurean even green is in the newsroom with me. who is this group. reporter: aoeupblgts a national organization, a right to die organization, and the group says we are just trying to give people an alternative. this is really aimed at the elderly, the adult people who have lived a long life and are suffering great pain from terminal illnesses. the head of the new jersey chapter tells me, we want to show people there are alternatives to perhaps dying a loan or having a life that is not filled with any type of quality. here is what he had to say. what are we trying to do, is to let people know that we are here, that there are choices out there, that there a
silent. i think dick armey s a good man. we re just asking him to stop being silent. and now, former republican speaker of the house, newt gingrich, has stepped up his offer to serve as a peacemaker, something mr. jealous told andrea mitchell that he would welcome. well, time to go across the usa and we start in new jersey where a controversial billboard is towering over route 22. the sign is sponsored by the final exit network, a group which advocates assisted suicide for ill patients. the group has a similar billboard in san francisco, soon will post one in florida. a girl kidnapped from her foster parents in california six years ago has been found in phoenix. authorities rescued the now 7-year-old girl. she was allegedly kidnapped by her three biological aunts. archaeologists are at ground zero in new york city trying to salvage a 32-foot-long ship that s been buried for centuries. it dates back to the 1700s. it s said to have been part of