
Barely two weeks before Christmas, Illinois quietly crossed another moral Rubicon. On December 12, Illinois became the 12th state, alongside Washington, D.C., to legalize physician-assisted suicide, rebranded under the soothing-sounding banner of “medical aid in dying,” or MAID. Yet as the new year dawned, this continued shift in how Americans define life and death passed nearly unnoticed.

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