Wednesday, June 3, 2026
6/3/202626 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses the increase in legislative support for euthanasia, the parents who supported their 19-year-old daughter’s demand for euthanasia, and the parable of Maine’s senatorial election.
Part I (00:13 – 10:09)
About One-Third of the U.S. Population Now Lives Where Euthanasia is Legal: This is a Dark Development
Part II (10:09 – 17:45)
A Case of Deadly Empathy: Two Parents Support 19-Year-Old Daughter’s Desire for Euthanasia, Even Unto Her Death
- The Parents Who Let Their Daughter Die by The Free Press (Rupa Subramanya)
Part III (17:45 – 26:12)
The Parable of Maine’s Senatorial Election: The Moral Conundrum and Realism of Elections Raised by the Case of Graham Platner
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[upbeat music] It's Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026. I'm Albert Mohler, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. At times, we just have to take an opportunity, pause, and reflect on something big that's happening, and understand sometimes numbers really do help to signal when something big is happening. So here's the big thing. As of a matter of weeks from now, one-third of the American population will live where some form of assisted suicide is legal. So we're talking about a revolution taking place right in our own time. So when I say right in our own times, I mean, like, right now, right in terms of these weeks. Now, of course, some of this goes back. The state of Oregon was the first, but you also have other states that have come on. By the time we come to the end of the summer, 13 states that will house about one-third of the American population will offer some form of what is often euphemistically, and I think falsely, called medical assistance or medical aid in dying, but is really assisted suicide. And so as we're thinking about huge worldview, huge moral issues, it's hard to come up with one bigger than this. It's hard to come up with a, a seismic development, well, of greater magnitude than this, because we are talking here about life and death. Now, when we think about the issue of life and death, let's just remember that we're in a society that has been living in denial for a matter of decades now about the reality of life and death, and that means living in direct defiance to life