Assisted Suicide Surge: The Fruit of Post-Conciliar Apostasy

The EWTN News article of March 13, 2026, reports on a database compiled by Aging with Dignity showing over 14,000 recorded assisted suicide deaths in the U.S. since 1997, with the real number likely higher due to missing state data. It highlights lax enforcement, complications from drugs, and the expansion to non-terminal conditions like lupus and diabetes. Jamie Towey of Aging with Dignity states safeguards like psychiatric screenings are ignored, citing Oregon and Washington providing them in less than 1% of cases. Matt Vallière of the Patients’ Rights Action Fund calls the policy “dangerous and discriminatory” and notes a nearly 1,000% increase in 10 years. The article frames the issue as a failure of “safeguards” and a lack of transparency, urging political action.

This analysis exposes not merely a policy failure but the logical, diabolical culmination of the apostasy that has infected the post-conciliar “Church.” The article’s very framework—debating “safeguards” for murder—reveals a mindset that has utterly abandoned the absolute, non-negotiable moral law of God. It operates within the naturalistic, humanistic paradigm of the “abomination of desolation” standing in the holy place, where the sanctity of life is subordinated to the idol of personal autonomy and the cult of suffering is replaced by the cult of death.