In May, France’s Assemblee National voted in favor of legalizing assisted suicide, taking another step down the road of moral decline and advancing a precedent that the state should assist a citizen in their ‘right to die.’ The vote, split 305-199 among its eleven political parties, garnered international attention, revealing to Europe and the world just how far a once-deeply Christian France had drifted from its own roots.
In modern-day France, traditional conservative Christians are politically homeless. That is to say, the past decade of mass migration, the Right’s repeated political compromises, and the country’s cultural drift have led to a moment where those who remain committed to France’s Christian heritage as well as acting on their own morals find themselves shut out of every major political movement.
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