The Amish Are Being Targeted in New York, Pennsylvania | 28 Aug 2026 | On Tuesday, August 25, 2026, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro stood inside Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health’s Women and Babies Hospital, flanked by the hospital’s CEO, and announced two “measles-associated deaths…” This piece is about whether the response Pennsylvania is designing for the Amish — a multi-generational persuasion campaign described in the state’s own briefing documents, backed in New York by $118,000 in fines against three one-room Amish schools and a possible mass exodus of 25,000 Amish residents — is the appropriate constitutional response to a religious minority in a country founded on religious liberty… The Lancaster County Coroner told the local paper his office had handled “no measles deaths.” Meanwhile, 200 miles north, three one-room Amish schools in upstate New York are staring down the $118,000 in state fines, their attorneys are preparing a second petition to the U.S. Supreme Court for September, and roughly 25,000 Amish are discussing whether to leave New York for Pennsylvania.