The Philadelphia Federal District Court awarded Pennsylvania and New Jersey a judgment in defiance of a Supreme Court ruling that protected a catholic charity from being forces to pay for the murder of unborn children. The organization, Little Sisters of the Poor, has vowed to appealed the overtly unconstitutional and immoral decision.
Mark Rienzi, president of Becket and lead attorney for the Little Sisters, said of the ungodly and un-American ruling, “The district court blessed an out-of-control effort by Pennsylvania and New Jersey to attack the Little Sisters and religious liberty. It’s bad enough that the district court issued a nationwide ruling invalidating federal religious conscience rules. But even worse is that the district court simply ducked the glaring constitutional issues in this case, after waiting five years and not even holding a hearing. It is absurd to think the Little Sisters might need yet another trip to the Supreme Court to end what has now been more than a dozen years of litigation over the same issue. We will fight as far as we need to fight to protect the Little Sisters’ right to care for the elderly in peace.”
Court Issues Ruling Forcing Catholic Nuns to Pay for Abortions – Lifenews
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In a nationwide ruling against a Trump Administration religious conscience rule, a federal district court in Philadelphia today sided with Pennsylvania and New Jersey in their years-long effort to force the Little Sisters of the Poor—an order of Catholic nuns who care for the elderly poor—to either provide abortion and contraceptives in their healthcare plan or pay tens of millions of dollars in fines.
