New York Governor Hochul will sign assisted-suicide legislation
December 18, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: New York’s Governor Kathy Hochul has announced that she will sign into law a bill making assisted suicide legal.
The Catholic bishops of New York quickly responded with a statement saying that assisted suicide is a “grave moral evil,” and “in direct conflict with Catholic teaching on the sacredness and dignity of all human life.”
Governor Hochul, a graduate of Catholic University, said that her choice to sign the legislation—making New York the 13th state to allow assisted suicide—was “an incredibly difficult decision.”
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