Wesley J. Smith

Transhumanists keep looking for ways to radically extend their lives. I keep telling them it is a fool’s errand, but they persist.  So, in the spirit of comity, I present a report in the Telegraph that could show male transhumanists now to gain a few extra decades. From the . . . . Continue Reading »

I have noted often that creating the abortion license also led to a perceived fundamental right to not only have a baby, but the baby one wants.  And some have said I was nuts, but can there be any real doubt that abortion  helped turn procreation into a consumer . . . . Continue Reading »

This is soooo unsurprising: Wathdog David Jensen, author of the stellar California Stem Cell Report blog, discloses that California Institute of Regenerative Medicine has doled over a billion of Californians’ borrowed money to recipients affiated with its directors.  . . . . Continue Reading »

I have a piece out in the Weekly Standard that I think nails the Obama agenda of “fundamental transformation.”  From, “Power Grab:”To paraphrase Freud: Liberals, what do they really want? Not the communism or socialism of the right’s fever dreams. They know that . . . . Continue Reading »

Apropos my On the Square column today, a report notes that more people die from suicide in the USA than from car crashes.  From the Healthday story:More Americans now commit suicide than die in car crashes, making suicide the leading cause of injury deaths, according to a new study... . . . . Continue Reading »

My biweekly On the Square today deals with the wave of suicide prevention. I partly blame the assisted suicide movement and the suicide prevention community’s failure to grapple with the pro advocacy of the “death with dignity” crowd.I begin by noting that suicide prevention seems . . . . Continue Reading »

When I was practicing law from the mid-1970s into the 1980s, there was tremendous emphasis given in the popular media and within the bar association to the cause of suicide prevention. Hotlines proliferated, anti-suicide billboards were ubiquitous, and a great deal of attention was paid to saving the lives of despairing people… . Continue Reading »

In the wake of the Obama Administration’s regulation requiring all employers but houses of worship to offer free birth control and sterilization coverage, Missouri passed legislation stating that no MO employer has to provide such coverage if it violates their religious convictions.  Veto . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh, good grief. Should we “uplift” the intelligence of animals?  Transhumanists generally say yes, if only to shatter human exceptionalism.  But really.George Dvorsky, who I once saw give a lecture urging that animal minds be uploaded into computers to do away with the . . . . Continue Reading »

The New York Times uses its op/ed page as a supplement to its editorial page–that is, most of the articles published reflect the views of the editors. Letters to the Editor, too.The NYT has called for health care rationing several times in the past and published articles by others supporting . . . . Continue Reading »