Thursday, December 18, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:14 – 13:42)
New York and Illinois Set to Approve Assisted Suicide: The Culture of Death is Expanding at a Rapid Rate in the U.S.
- Governor Hochul Reaches Agreement With State Legislature to Pass Medical Aid in Dying Act in New York by New York State (Gov. Kathy Hochul)
- Governor Pritzker Signs Bill Expanding End-of-Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients by Illinois State (Gov. JB Pritzker)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, December 18, 2025. I'm Albert Mueller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.2 | We think about moral change happening. We know what's happening in the society. How fast is it happening? |
| 0:20.1 | We'll just take this into consideration. |
| 0:22.6 | In the last week, indeed, less than the last seven days, two of the biggest states in the union |
| 0:29.9 | have moved to legalize assisted suicide. And that's just in a matter of days. The states are |
| 0:36.5 | Illinois and New York. They are respectively New New York, the fourth most popular state, Illinois, the sixth most popular state. So two of the top ten in a matter of days moving forward, the announcements came in both cases from the offices of the governors, respectively, J.B. Pritzker in Illinois and Kathy Hockel in the state of New York. |
| 0:56.4 | The more recent one, just yesterday in terms of the formal announcement in New York. |
| 1:01.1 | The headline from the statement coming from the governor's offices, Governor Hockel, reaches agreement with state legislature to pass medical aid in dying act in New York. |
| 1:10.3 | Now, this is the euphemism again. MAID, dying act in New York. Now, this is the euphemism again, |
| 1:12.2 | MAID, medical assistance in dying. This is medical aid in dying. That's a euphemism to avoid |
| 1:19.9 | saying assisted suicide or euthanasia. It's to make it more politically palatable. But all right, |
| 1:25.5 | I want to get to the most foundational worldview issues here, |
| 1:28.4 | and I want to remind us how you find them. You find them, for example, in the statement that came |
| 1:34.0 | as a second headline from the governor's office. So this again is the way the governor's office has |
| 1:39.1 | chosen to announce this decision. Listen to this. Quote, New York will always fight for and protect the right |
| 1:45.8 | to bodily autonomy. That's the first explanatory line. It simply asserts here that the most |
| 1:53.2 | basic moral reality is what is defined as bodily autonomy, which is now extended to the |
| 2:00.0 | autonomy to end one's own life and to demand medical |
| 2:03.3 | assistance in doing so. Now, it won't stop there. We'll talk about that in a moment. But the big |
| 2:07.3 | issue here is personal autonomy. It comes up again and again. In a statement released by the |
| 2:12.3 | governor's office on Tuesday of this week, the governor said, quote, New York has long been a beacon of freedom. |
| 2:18.4 | And now it is time we extend that freedom to terminally ill New Yorkers who want the right |
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