Dominican Nuns Sue New York over Assisted Suicide Law

The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, along with a coalition of other Catholic health-care groups in New York, filed a lawsuit Friday in opposition to the state’s new assisted suicide law.

The law in question, the Medical Aid in Dying Act, allows patients with less than six months to live to ask for drugs to end their lives. Another New York state law, the Palliative Care Information Act, requires health-care providers to inform terminally ill patients of all of their treatment options. When the assisted suicide law law takes effect on August 5, the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne and the 12 other faith-based health-care groups that joined the suit will be forced to violate their consciences by informing their patients of their “right” to kill themselves.

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Kamden Mulder

Kamden Mulder is a William F. Buckley Jr. Fellow in Political Journalism. She is a graduate of Hillsdale College.

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The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, along with a coalition of other Catholic health-care groups in New York, filed a lawsuit Friday in opposition to the state’s new assisted suicide law.

The law in question, the Medical Aid in Dying Act, allows patients with less than six months to live to ask for drugs to end their lives. Another New York state law, the Palliative Care Information Act, requires health-care providers to inform terminally ill patients of all of their treatment options. When the assisted suicide law law takes effect on August 5, the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne and the 12 other faith-based health-care groups that joined the suit will be forced to violate their consciences by informing their patients of their “right” to kill themselves.