Cardinal Cupich, religious sisters, pharmacist sue Illinois over physician-assisted suicide law
The challenge comes weeks after another group of Catholic healthcare providers secured temporary protection from portions of Illinois' assisted-suicide law, which is scheduled to take effect Sept. 12.The suit Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm v. Prince, filed by Becket, asks a federal court to block the End-of-Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients Act (EOLOA) before it takes effect Sept. 12. Along with Cardinal Cupich, the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm, the Little Sisters of the Poor, and Catholic pharmacist Luke Vander Bleek are the plaintiffs.
The Sisters and Bleek fulfill their ministries and work in the healthcare realm according to their Catholic beliefs, which affirms the dignity of human life from conception until natural death, according to Becket.
“I became a pharmacist because I wanted to help people heal, never to hasten their deaths,” Bleek, owner of Fitzgerald Pharmacy in Morrison, said in the release. “But now Illinois wants my pharmacy to dispense prescriptions for suicide in violation of my Catholic beliefs. The state shouldn’t force me to choose between serving my neighbors and following my conscience.”
In following their beliefs, the Catholic healthcare providers cannot prescribe or dispense deadly drugs, refer patients to obtain them, or facilitate a patient’s suicide. However, according to the release, the EOLOA “forces them to do exactly that.”
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This is really sick and against God! They're just taking the example from Canada who keeps pushing all of this assisted suicide and euthanasia it's very sick and sad for our society we need to follow God's plan not humans and respect life until natural death! Prolife, no to abortion, the death penalty, nor euthanasia!
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