Catholic Nuns Sue Illinois Over Law Forcing Them To Help Terminally Ill Patients Kill Themselves

Catholic Nuns Sue Illinois Over Law Forcing Them To Help Terminally Ill Patients Kill Themselves — Daily Caller News Foundation

Catholic healthcare ministries have served the sick, elderly, and dying of Chicago for nearly 175 years, according to Becket’s statement.

“The elderly people who come to our homes are looking for a place where they will be cherished and cared for until natural death,” Mother Julie Marie, mother provincial of the Chicago Province of the Little Sisters of the Poor also states. “They should be free to choose that kind of care without having assisted suicide inserted into it by the state. We simply want to continue giving them the loving home they came to us for.”

Luke Vander Bleek, who owns Fitzgerald Pharmacy in Illinois, also joined the lawsuit.

“I became a pharmacist because I wanted to help people heal, never to hasten their deaths. But now Illinois wants my pharmacy to dispense prescriptions for suicide in violation of my Catholic beliefs,” Bleek states in the press release. “The state shouldn’t force me to choose between serving my neighbors and following my conscience.”

A physician, two disabled patients, and multiple healthcare advocacy groups sued Illinois over EOLOA in June, arguing that the assisted suicide law lacks the necessary guardrails to protect disabled patients from being discriminated against by physicians.

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Catholic Nuns Sue Illinois Over Law Forcing Them To Help Terminally Ill Patients Kill Themselves

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