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See You in Court: Catholic Nuns Fight Back Against Hochul's 'Culture of Death' Law ⁠89%

By Bob Hoge⁠90%

7/20/2026, 8:25:47 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 35 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Biased Writer Voice, and Appeal to Emotion, with Politically Right Leaning Bias as the most egregious example at 46.1% saturation with 299 hits. Analysis detected 2,914 faulty-reasoning hits from 649 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 82.1% and a BS Rank of ⁠89% (2,446 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 88.80% of the article peer group.

The Left is always claiming that the Right are fascists, yet doesn’t it always seem like they are the ones trying to force you to do things you don’t want to do? 
Don’t feel like being the guinea pig for an experimental COVID vaccine? 
Fine, we’ll get you fired, ostracized, and keep you out of restaurants and offices. 
You’re a baker in Colorado, but it’s against your beliefs to make a gay-themed wedding cake? 
We’ll sue you and try to shut you down. 
Call the 6’ 4” dude in the ladies room a man? 
Watch your six, because the Thought Police will soon be coming for you. 
Now, a group of around 13 plaintiffs, including Catholic healthcare providers and multiple congregations of nuns, is claiming that a new assisted suicide law in New York State signed and endorsed by Democrat Gov. 
Kathy Hochul would force them to choose between violating the tenets of their faith or giving up their longtime practice of caring for the sick, elderly and the terminally ill (often for free). 
The third option would be to ignore the law altogether and potentially be subject to heavy fines or license revocation, an obvious non-starter. 
But these nuns are pushing back hard, and they’re taking the Empire State to court. 
A group of nuns that provide care to the terminally ill are suing the state of New York. 
On Friday, the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne filed a complaint over the state’s new assisted dying law, arguing it forces religious workers to compromise their faith. 
@MadeleineELong got… 
According to the lawsuit, the measure would force them to counsel those seeking assisted suicide — and even refer them to “providers.” 
The issue here isn’t even whether assisted dying is a good idea; it’s that these nuns would be forced to throw out their beliefs and everything they stand for: 
The law works in tandem with an existing New York statute, the Palliative Care Information Act, which requires doctors and nurse practitioners to inform terminally ill patients of all their end-of-life options. 
Now that assisted dying is one of them, medical professionals must proactively raise it with patients—whether or not the patient asks. 
“Everyone is made in the image and likeness of God, and there is a dignity about the human person,” Mother Marie Edward told The Free Press, the outlet founded by now-CBS News head Bari Weiss after she quit The New York Times over its "illiberal" culture. 
“We are only the guardians of this body. 
We do not take the charge of whether or not we live or we die. 
That’s up to God.” 
In addition to putting the nuns in an unsolvable dilemma, one of the attorneys for the plaintiffs argues that the law basically promotes suicide: 
Mark Rienzi, president of Becket, who is representing the Carmelite Sisters, the Dominican Sisters, the Benedictine Sisters, and the Little Sisters of the Poor, as well as Bishop John O. 
Barres and the Diocese of Rockville Centre, said in a statement that, "New York is forcing sick and dying people to consider suicide at their lowest moment, regardless of whether they ask for it or not." 
"Worse, it’s conscripting the nuns who care for them into its suicide cult on pain of crushing fines and professional ruin," Rienzi added. 
"That is both unconscionable and unconstitutional. 
We’re confident the federal courts will put a stop to it." 
Whenever someone tries to force you by law to go against your religious beliefs or do something that defies logic, it’s not usually a Republican behind the power play, despite what they tell you. 
All too often these days, it’s a “progressive” who wants to tell you how to think and coerce you into acting in tandem with their worldview, regardless of how different it may be from your own. 
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649 words analyzed.

Speakers

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Selected voice

Mother Marie Edward

74%flagged-word coverage
73 attributed words43% of attributed speech96% writer coverage
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Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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