Churches and religious charities in New York are asking the U.S. Supreme Court for protection from a state mandate forcing them to cover abortions in their employee health insurance plans.
Life News reports:
In a brief submitted in April, the Catholic and Protestant ministries told the high court that the mandate puts them in an “intolerable position”; the state is forcing them to choose between paying for the killing of unborn babies in abortions or giving up their ministries of helping people in need.
National Review reports the 2017 regulation from the New York Department of Financial Services is similar to the Obamacare contraception mandate. It has a very narrow religious exemption that excludes religious organizations that employ and/or serve people who are not of the same religion.
“New York has told us that if we want to hold our beliefs about the sanctity of life, we have to stop serving non-Anglicans,” said Mother Miriam, of the Sisterhood of Saint Mary, the oldest Anglican religious order founded in America, previously. “We cannot compromise on our religious beliefs, or in our service to people of all faiths or no faith at all.”
The Carmelite Sisters at the Teresian Nursing Home and the First Bible Baptist Church are other parties in the case. They also run charities that serve people in need, no matter what their religious beliefs are, the report states.
The National Review reports that lower courts have not ruled on behalf of the churches, but instead ruled in favor of the state, claiming that the pro-abortion regulation does not specifically “target” religion.
Life News notes, “the mandate requires New York employers to cover all “medically necessary abortions.” However, the state’s definition includes abortions that are not actually medically necessary, such as abortions on unborn babies with Down syndrome.”
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