
Making Physician-Assisted Suicide Unthinkable
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May 12, 2026
Physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is now legally available in 13 U.S. states and Washington, DC, and to the more than 100 million residents of those jurisdictions. Following the removal of residency requirements from eligibility criteria in Oregon and Vermont in 2023, anyone who has the means to travel to those states can potentially receive PAS. More pointedly, all of your parishioners or fellow congregation members who could qualify can now receive PAS, regardless of which state your church is in. Till now, Christians have resisted PAS by working to keep it illegal or to slow its political and legal advance. Christians must reconsider what continued Christian resistance to PAS looks like.
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