It's Thursday, June 12, 2025.

I'm Albert Mueller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

The culture of death is taking a giant step forward in the state of New York.

Like California on the West Coast, New York on the East

Coast is often a cultural bellwether. What happens in California rarely stays in California.

What happens in New York rarely stays in New York. The news now comes that the state Senate in New York

has adopted, has passed legislation allowing for what's euphemistically

referred to as medical assistance in dying. The more accurate term is assisted suicide. That's

exactly what it is. But in an effort to try to avoid using the word suicide, which it is,

you have politicians and others trying to refer to it as assisted death,

medical assistance in dying. It's all a matter of moral evasion. We need to name things for what they are.

And by the way, one of the hot spots on this issue is the fact that you have a society that tries to

talk people out of committing suicide

and then turns around and offers them a legalized form of suicide.

Grace Ashford, reporting for the New York Times, tells us, quote,

The New York State Senate approved a bill on Monday that would allow people facing terminal diagnoses

to end their lives on their own terms, which the bill's proponents say would

grant a measure of autonomy to New Yorkers in their final days, end quote.

Now, there is so much for us to consider here. As I say, the fact that the state senate has adopted

this already, the General Assembly had adopted it, so it is going to the New York governor's

desk, that's Governor

Hockel, for the decision as to whether or not she will sign it into law. There is a sense of

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