Originally published January 2019

In 2019, New York legislature passed the Reproductive Health Act, pitting abortion rights against freedom of religion. The board is set. The game is on. The law paves the way for coercion of pro-life Christians, forcing participation in abortion against their deeply held religious beliefs through direct service or referral. Depending on how the bill is interpreted, refusal to participate in abortion could be viewed as denying a woman’s human right to end the life of her human baby.

This bill is dangerous to every person of faith. Before one’s beliefs can be articulated in the public square they must first go through the filter of secular policy? That is exactly how the RHA works—suffocating the expression of pro-life beliefs under the wet blanket of a secular state.

This real abortion news update is sponsored by CompassCare. For a full transcript go to realabortionnews.com.