Catholic nuns, pharmacist sue Illinois over requirement in assisted suicide law
Catholics nuns are suing Illinois, alleging the state is violating their constitutional rights and deeply held religious convictions by forcing them to promote assisted suicide and barring them from advising patients against it.
Several groups of Roman Catholic nuns and the organizations they run, along with Cardinal Blase Cupich of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago and a Catholic pharmacist, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Thursday over the End-of-Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients Act. The complaint challenges the law's provision requiring healthcare providers to advise terminally ill patients about “the foreseeable risks and benefits” of all end-of-life options, including assisted suicide.
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