US EditionNY State Drops Case to Mandate Religious Groups Cover Abortion in Employee Health Insurance
New York dropped enforcement after two plaintiffs took actions making the case moot, ending nearly a decade of litigation over abortion coverage mandates for religious groups.
- On Jan. 16, State of New York abandoned its attempt to enforce the DFS insurance rule, saying recent actions by two plaintiffs made Diocese of Albany v. Harris moot, filing a stipulation in state Supreme Court in Albany.
- By switching to self-insurance and relocating, two plaintiffs removed the live controversy as Catholic Charities of Brooklyn created a self-insured plan and the Sisters of St. Mary, an Anglican order based in Greenwich, N.Y., moved out of state.
- Regulatory changes in 2017 and subsequent narrowing of exemptions framed the litigation as the Department of Financial Services mandated abortion coverage and religious exemption narrowed to entities serving primarily their own faith.
- Plaintiffs said the state’s withdrawal vindicates religious objectors, with attorneys from Becket, Jones Day and Tobin and Dempf claiming victory and Lori Windham stating, `For nearly a decade, New York bureaucrats tried to strong-arm nuns into paying for abortions because they serve all those in need`.
- The high court’s June 5 and June 16, 2025 actions, plus the November 2024 Equal Protection of Law Amendment, framed the dispute’s broader context involving abortion coverage mandates.
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NY State Drops Case To Mandate Religious Groups Cover Abortion in Employee Health Insurance
A file photo shows the front of the New York state Capitol in Albany. The state of New York ended its effort to apply its abortion mandate to Catholic and Anglican nuns, Catholic dioceses, Christian churches and faith-based social ministries, bringing its long-running fight in Diocese of Albany v. Harris to a close. (Photo: OSV file/Mike Crupi, Catholic Courier) by OSV News ALBANY, N.Y. (OSV News) — In a sudden development in a case that has li…
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Source link Some legal teams are just hard to convince that they have a losing cause. Such are the lawyers who worked on New York state’s agenda to force nuns to pay for abortions, then fought through two losing Supreme Court battles to exact that punishment for the Catholic faithful. But, finally, they’ve given up. According to
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