Catholic lay leaders demanded today (January 24, 2019) that Cardinal Timothy Dolan excommunicate New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for signing legislation that codified abortion as a woman's right, according to the Daily Caller website.
The lay leaders made their demand in response to an open letter in which New York's Catholic bishops decried the new law, called the Reproductive Health Act, rejecting Cuomo's claim that the law is "progressive."
Prominent Catholic laymen like author John Zmirak and editor of First Things magazine Matthew Schmitz argued the letter didn't go far enough and that Cuomo should be denied Holy Communion.
"This is not progress. Progress will be achieved when our laws and our culture once again value and respect each unrepeatable gift of human life, from the first moment of creation to natural death," the bishops' letter said.
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