Washington D.C., Apr 27, 2021 / 13:00 pm America/Denver (CNA).
The dioceses of Albany and Ogdensburg and other Catholic and Christian ministries last week asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case against New York’s abortion coverage mandate.
The 2017 mandate from the state’s Department of Financial Services required that employers cover abortions in their employee health insurance plans. While the state granted a religious exemption to the rule, the groups challenging the mandate in court claim that it was too narrow and did not exempt agencies which primarily serve or employ people of different faiths.
Plaintiffs in the case include the Diocese of Albany, the Diocese of Ogdensburg, three state Catholic Charities agencies, Anglican sisters, and Baptist and Lutheran churches.
Members of the Sisterhood of Saint Mary, a group of Anglican nuns, are among several religious organizations asking the United States Supreme Court to hear their challenge against a New York state mandate requiring employers to cover abortion in their employees healthcare plans. | Becket
A group of nuns and other religious organizations in New York are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case against a 2017 state mandate requiring employers to cover abortions in their employee healthcare plans.Â
Led by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, a coalition of religious organizations filed an appeal Friday asking the nationâs high court to hear the case of
Washington D.C., Mar 10, 2021 / 11:30 am (CNA).- A group of New York state senators is calling on state Gov. Andrew Cuomo to rescind an order requiring group homes for adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities to accept COVID-positive patients.
Cuomo had issued a controversial directive last year requiring nursing homes in the state to accept patients discharged from hospitals with confirmed or suspected cases of COVID. In January of this year, the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James said that the state undercounted the number of nursing home deaths by as much as 50%.
The March, 2020 directive on nursing homes was later rescinded in May, but a similar order remains in place for group homes for adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities, three Republican New York state senators told CNA.
OGDENSBURG â A virtual press event on Tuesday provided an update on lawsuits involving Catholic dioceses and alleged clergy perpetrators filed under the New York Child Victims Act between August 2019 and December 2020.
âThis is the now the 22nd Anderson report that has been released to help identify perils in the communities, to help survivors know where they are and who they are, to identify those institutions and Catholic bishops across this country who have been complicit in allowing children to have been abused, and to do what we can with each survivor, one at a time to make sure that we are doing something today to protect kids tomorrow,â said attorney Jeff Anderson, founder of the law firm Jeff Anderson and Associates.
Catholic Church Faces Wave Of Sex Abuse Cases Across State oswegocountytoday.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from oswegocountytoday.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.