West Virginia amends their state constitution to ban physician-assisted suicide.

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stories we'll discuss and we also take some of your questions. I'm your host Sean McDowell.

I'm your co-host, Scott Ray. This is the Think Biblically Weekly Cultural Update, brought

you by Talbot School Theology, Biola University. Scott, what makes us unique is we are actually

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evangelical theological society. So folks here, a little background noise, that is theologians

and professors walking by. But there's some big stories this week. We don't want to miss the

opportunity to dive in. It's still post-election stuff. But we did find stories that really had a lot of significance

that don't have anything to do with the election or the transition.

Well, this one popped right up to me because it's so in your lane in terms of your expertise

in bioethics. And it's about this assisted suicide kind of ballot in West Virginia.

So although it's been on the ballot in different states in recent years, it's typically not

in an attempt to legalize it.

But this year in West Virginia, voters were asked if the Constitution should ban it.

It was a close vote, but West Virginia's decided 50.4% to 49.6% to

amend the Constitution to include a prohibition on assisted suicide. Now, interestingly enough,

assisted suicide is already illegal in West Virginia, but what the

constitutional amendment does is to make it harder for proponents to launch an effort to legalize

it.

Now, just to give a little background of the arguments, this is no surprise, but pushing back on

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