A roundup of news and commentary from around the interwebs.
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At The Critic, Sebastian Milbank has a sobering essay titled “The end of Christendom,” in which he looks at the tandem threat of persecution against Christians outside the West and the slow, steady erosion of religious liberty within the West. An excerpt:
With no refuge or well of power and influence with which to draw on, Christians are becoming further endangered across the globe. Christian refugees will find no special welcome in the secular West. Christian churches in exile may find their beliefs again denounced and legally persecuted by Western societies. The great influence and rhetoric that helped win freedom for the Christian peoples of the Balkans is unlikely to be available for Christians now persecuted worldwide.
Disability groups are saying—once again—that the Trudeau government has entirely ignored their concerns about assisted suicide:
“It is clear that the members of the AMAD committee made up their mind about expanding MAiD before consulting with the disability community,” says Krista Carr, Executive Vice President of Inclusion Canada, “Committee members failed to heed the numerous warnings and concerns raised by people with disabilities and their allies.”
Meanwhile, the defenders of Canada’s regime sound increasingly unhinged—like the columnist at the Toronto Star who says that her friend, who struggled with deep depression and recovered, should have access to assisted suicide. I hope her friend didn’t read that garbage.
To defend abortion in the wake of Roe v. Wade’s fall, Paris Hilton has publicly stated that she had an abortion when she was in her early twenties because she “was a kid.” She wasn’t, of course—and the actual kid was killed. Children pay the price for our ambitions.
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Parliamentarian Garnett Genuis has a powerful speech opposing assisted suicide in the House of Commons:
