The House’s overwhelming 427–1 vote to release the long-awaited Epstein files—enthusiastically backed by President Trump—was supposed to be a bipartisan moment of transparency.
But it came with a curious footnote: Representative Clay Higgins cast the lone “no” vote, voicing concern that victims and witnesses wouldn’t be protected. The Senate also offered broad support, and the bill now heads to the president’s desk.
Yet as the political victory laps unfold, Republicans are reminding the public of a key question: who was really tangled up with Epstein? Representative James Comer pointed to 2013 email exchanges reportedly showing Democrat minority leader Hakeem Jeffries courting major financial support from Epstein. Listen:
If anything damning emerges from these files, it’s likely to reinforce one trend — that more Democrats were friendly with Epstein than they’d like to admit. And yes, there’s much more coming on this story.
But today, it’s necessary to address a moral crisis far more immediate than political embarrassment: the accelerating push for assisted suicide. As a Christian and as an American, I believe we cannot embrace this movement — not because compassion is wrong, but because what’s being called “compassion” is increasingly a euphemism for abandonment.
And the countries that have already gone down this road offer chilling evidence of what happens when society stops valuing life.
Canada stands as the starkest example. This isn’t merely a cautionary tale—it’s an air-raid siren. In case after case, people are choosing assisted suicide not because they’re receiving proper care, but because they’re not receiving care at all. Joe Rogan has highlighted this before.
Consider 84-year-old Cleo Gratton: left for days in a hallway under harsh lights, stripped of privacy and dignity, he eventually applied for “medical aid in dying.” That’s what Canada calls its program—MAID.
Or consider quadriplegic Norman Meunier, who developed bedsores from an ER stretcher. He also requested death. Reports abound of disabled or chronically ill Canadians being denied basic palliative or home care, then offering death as an alternative—an unconscionable trade between suffering and support.
Some disabled Canadians say doctors now suggest assisted suicide as casually as they recommend antibiotics. Three in five Canadians worry that vulnerable people are being steered toward death simply because the system can’t (or won’t) afford care. This is what single-payer health care looks like in practice: the state becomes both caregiver and executioner.
Medical professionals know this truth, even if many won’t say it publicly. Dr. Michael Mulholland does.
And then there is the heartbreaking story of Markus Schouten, a Canadian teenager facing terminal cancer. Before his death, he wrote to Canada’s Parliament: “Life is worth living and we should always work to alleviate suffering without eliminating the sufferer.” His message came at a pivotal moment, as Canada debated expanding assisted suicide to “mature minors.” His warning was clear: once the door cracks open, it only swings wider.
This expansion isn’t an accident. A sprawling international network, flush with money and euphemisms like “dying with dignity” and “completed life,” is pushing assisted suicide worldwide — targeting even children. That isn’t mercy. It’s moral corrosion dressed up as compassion.
The United Kingdom is now facing its own moment of crisis with the “Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill,” which would legalize assisted dying under certain conditions.
Supporters call it humane. Critics — including leaders across Christian, Jewish, and other faith communities — call it what it is: a potential “license to kill.” They warn of inadequate protections for minors, people with disabilities, mental illness patients, and abuse victims.
Young people are especially at risk in a culture already steeped in messages that death is preferable to hardship. Even if advertising is banned, the societal messaging is impossible to contain.
Disability advocates in the UK insist this legislation inherently discriminates against the disabled. “Care Not Killing,” a coalition of pro-life and faith-based groups, argues that resources should go to palliative care, not a state-sanctioned suicide pipeline. And yes—talk has already begun about extending these policies to people with disabilities.
People with disabilities need help to live, not to die.
From a Christian perspective, the mandate is simple: life is sacred because every human being bears the image of God. We cannot endorse any system that tells the weak, the sick, the elderly, or the depressed that their lives are less valuable or less worthy of protection.
Listen to the CEO of Hourglass, a group that defends older adults from abuse, explain how coercion hides in the shadows of these laws:
Choice is not enough when the vulnerable are easily manipulated. True compassion demands protecting life, not quietly ushering people toward death and calling it mercy.
And make no mistake — this ideology is already creeping into the United States. Virginia’s governor-elect, Democrat Abigail Spanberger, openly supports assisted dying.
This should surprise no one. The Democratic Party has championed the devaluation of life for decades — from the unborn to the elderly. If the party that claims “Black Lives Matter” truly believed it, perhaps they would acknowledge that in New York City more Black babies are aborted than born each year. Or that nationally, Black women undergo abortion at 3–5 times the rate of White women. Or that roughly 28% of Generation X never existed because they were aborted.
This is the collapse of moral clarity. And now, assisted suicide threatens to extend that collapse into the final chapter of life itself.
Once a society declares that some lives are worth less than others, the slide toward a “culture of death” accelerates. Today it’s the terminally ill. Tomorrow it’s the disabled. The day after, it’s the depressed teen. This is not speculation — it is precisely the path Canada is walking, and one many in the UK hope to follow.
Markus Schouten saw this clearly. So did his parents. Many of us do too.
We must stand for life — not only at its beginning, and not only when it is easy, but through suffering, decline, and death. Every human life is precious. Every human life bears inherent dignity. And every human life deserves protection from a system that whispers, “You’d be better off gone.”