Religious Liberty Isn’t a Given in Kathy Hochul’s New York

The new assisted-suicide law leaves Catholic nuns fighting for basic freedom.

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Image from a Hawthorne Dominicans vocation video in 2021

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The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne exist to love patients as Christ Himself in their Rosary Hill Home in the suburbs of New York City. With assisted suicide going into effect in Kathy Hochul’s Empire State, that seems to mean: to crucify Him again.

Day One for the euphemistically named Medical Aid in Dying law is August 5. Unless attempts to have the law halted or declared unconstitutional are successful, it puts the Catholic nuns in an impossible position: presenting and participating in assisted suicide as an option for their patients.

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the religion editor of National Review. Sign up for her weekly newsletter here. She is the author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living.

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