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Wesley J. Smith

Which of the following hypotheticals do you believe is most likely to happen in 2007?
President Bush’s ESCR funding policy will be overturned.
California and/or Washington State will legalize assisted suicide.
Adult stem cell therapies will restore mobility to paralyzed people.
The Netherlands will be condemned in the UN for legalizing infanticide.
Futile Care Theory will be upheld by a court, which will rule that doctors should decide when the time has come to die.
  
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Wesley J. Smith

Wesley J. Smith is host of the podcast Humanize and chairman of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism. His most recent book is Culture of Death: The Age of Do Harm Medicine.

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