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The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, who have operated a home in upstate New York for terminal cancer patients for nearly 125 years, have filed a lawsuit against the state, claiming its gender-identity mandates would force them to violate the tenets of their Catholic faith.
The Catholic bishops had urged Hochul not to pass the bill, saying that it undermined her own work on anti-suicide programs.
COMMENTARY: An open letter to New York Governor Kathy Hochul
Bishop Robert Barron of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, explained Catholic teaching in a post on X.
This report follows a trend of rising OCIA numbers throughout the U.S., as the Register has reported.
COMMENTARY: Legalizing physician-assisted suicide is bad enough — but New York’s version deepens the harm by leaving Catholic and other health-care providers vulnerable to mandates they cannot accept.
The Democratic-controlled state Legislature passed the bill on June 9, but Catholic leaders and other opponents of the measure believe it’s still possible to persuade Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul to veto it.
EDITORIAL: If Catholic Gov. Kathy Hochul signs the bill, New York’s doctors will have been granted a license to kill some of their state’s most vulnerable and marginalized residents.
It is not just victim advocates who have called for insurers to pay abuse claims in both New York and elsewhere. New York archbishop Cardinal Timothy Dolan last year said the archdiocese was launching a lawsuit against its longtime insurer.
Emilee Carpenter, who operates Emilee Carpenter Photography, sued the state over the law, arguing that it would force her to produce photographs and blogs against her religious belief that marriage is between one man and one woman.
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