With assisted suicide officially becoming legal across New York on Aug. 5, the state’s Catholic bishops are calling for prayers, noting that “our elected officials have turned the notion of ‘death with dignity’ on its head.”
Medical Aid in Dying Act
NY Lawmakers Are Backing Assisted Suicide Legislation Catholic Bishops Call ‘Dangerous’
While New York legislators argue that assisted suicide legislation would allow terminally ill patients to die with dignity, the state’s Catholic bishops on March 5 countered that it would put the state on a “dangerous path that contaminates medicine and turns the notion of compassion on its head.”