New York Tries to Force Catholics to Kill

The Wall Street Journal ^ | Nov. 12, 2026 2:46 pm ET | Ronald A. Hicks

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It requires us to assist patients who want suicide and to falsify death certificates.

For more than 150 years, Catholic institutions have cared for New Yorkers in need.

In 1849, the Sisters of Charity, founded by St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, responded to a cholera epidemic by founding the city’s first Catholic hospital. The Misericordia Sisters came to New York in 1887 and founded Misericordia Hospital, which eventually relocated to the Bronx and became known as Our Lady of Mercy Hospital. The Little Sisters of the Poor arrived around 1870, begging for food and money to care for the elderly poor. Mother Cabrini and the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart founded Columbus Hospital in 1892.

Catholic hospitals and providers continue that legacy by treating thousands of New Yorkers every year, regardless of their faith or ability to pay. As Catholics, we see the face of Christ himself in every patient—every elderly grandmother alone in a hospital room, every father battling cancer, every child suffering serious illness. Healthcare is a sacred duty to cure if possible and always to care.

New York Catholics live out this mission through such world-class facilities as Calvary Hospital in the Bronx, the only hospital in the nation devoted exclusively to providing the best possible palliative care to adults dying of cancer, and Mother Cabrini Hospital in Manhattan, New York state’s only hospital dedicated to children with serious developmental disabilities.

Now, New York is trying to change how we care—by forcing Catholics to help people kill themselves through what legislators have euphemistically named the Medical Aid in Dying Act. While the law offers the pretense of a religious exemption, the state still demands that healthcare providers counsel their dying patients about what...

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[ansel12]

Catholics have to vote against the things they claim that they oppose.

[frank ballenger]

Little Sisters of the Poor must have felt like a badminton shuttlecock as the Biden and then Trump sides fought it out in courts. In danger, out of danger, back in danger.

One time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKPix8mnRvQ&t=11s

[SecondAmendment]

As we just saw last week a very large number of Catholics voted to protect a woman’s ability to have an unborn child dismembered alive by a vaccuum.

[No name given]

That says a lot about them.