{"id":301558,"date":"2023-11-14T16:41:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T22:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=301558"},"modified":"2023-11-13T21:08:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T03:08:26","slug":"court-new-york-officials-sisters-life-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/court-new-york-officials-sisters-life-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Court instructs New York officials to leave Sisters of Life alone"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Sisters of Life, a New York-based Catholic religious community that operates a pregnancy resource center (PRC) in New York City, have won a lawsuit against state officials who wanted access to the community’s internal documents.<\/p>\n

As part of its pro-abortion push, the state of New York passed a law in June 2022 that authorized the state Commissioner of Health to gain access to the private and sensitive internal documents of those PRCs that don’t offer or refer for abortions. The law allows access \u201cwithout a warrant and without any reason to suspect that the organization is violating any law.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a community, the Sisters of Life offer a wide variety of services to women and families. In addition to their pregnancy resource center, they also provide counseling, medical and social care, housing, and post-abortion care. Per Becket Law<\/a>, which represented the Sisters, the state’s order would have “forced them to turn over private information that would jeopardize their trusting relationships with women in need.” The Sisters argued that the law violates the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, as well as the First Amendment freedom of speech and religion.<\/p>\n