Judge temporarily blocks Illinois assisted suicide law; plaintiffs feel ‘relief, gratitude for now’

Christian doctors win temporary protection from Ill. assisted suicide law

Illinois has temporarily agreed not to enforce a new assisted suicide law against Christian doctors and Catholic entities that argue the law violates their religious convictions and constitutional rights.

Judge temporarily blocks Illinois assisted suicide law; plaintiffs feel ‘relief, gratitude for now’

The judge's order is in place pending the result of two cases under appeal in the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, NIFLA v. Treto and Schroeder v. Treto.

Judge Temporarily Blocks Illinois Assisted Suicide Law - The Good Newsroom

Judge Temporarily Blocks Illinois Assisted Suicide Law World | 08/27/2026 By: OSV News A federal judge grants a temporary restraining order shielding Catholic health providers and a nursing home from the state’s new assisted suicide law while related appeals proceed The "At Peace" prayer garden to remember those lost to suicide is …

Judge temporarily blocks Illinois assisted suicide law; plaintiffs feel 'relief, gratitude for now'

CHICAGO (OSV News) — Illinois’ physician-assisted suicide law, set to take effect Sept. 12, has been temporarily blocked by a federal judge for specific individuals.  The order applies to “Catholic health care entities” under the authority of Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield, four Catholic doctors and Lutheran Care Center, a nursing home in south-central Illinois. (Two Catholic hospital systems, the Hospital Sisters Health System and OSF…