The Supreme Court gave a big victory to Catholic nuns in the Diocese of Albany, who are fighting an abortion mandate forced on them by the state of New York.

In short, the court vacated the ridiculous orders by the state courts and remanded the case back to the New York Court of Appeals.

Here’s the order:

Here’s more from Life News:

The Supreme Court has ordered New York courts to reconsider Diocese of Albany v. Harris, a case challenging New York’s abortion mandate, in light of Becket’s unanimous victory in Catholic Charities Bureau v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission.

In 2017, a group of Catholic and Anglican nuns, Catholic dioceses, Christian churches, and faith-based social ministries challenged New York’s mandate forcing them to pay for employees’ abortions. After New York courts declined to protect the faith groups, Becket and Jones Day asked the Supreme Court to step in. In 2021, the Justices reversed the lower courts’ rulings and told them to reconsider the case, but the courts ignored that instruction. Now the Supreme Court has ordered the New York courts to go back to the drawing board.

Last week, New York admitted that its scheme could not stand as written based on the Supreme Court’s recent decision in favor of Catholic Charities Bureau.

The case will immediately return to the New York Court of Appeals.

I’ll add to this that there are some websites out there claiming this was a ‘unanimous’ ruling by the Supreme Court. I guess they do that for clicks, because as best as I can tell there was no recorded vote on this that we were privy to. All we have is what you see above.