Wesley J. Smith

I have a review in the current First Things journal of Contested Reproduction, by John H Evans.  The book is aimed at Christians and seeks to help them find “common discourses” with which they can debate RGTs in the public square.I am all for employing arguments accessible to all . . . . Continue Reading »

Shades of Caligula!  I like fantasy films like Lord of  the Rings and, when HBO’s Game of Thrones received good reviews, I thought I’d tune in.  It isn’t that good generally, but the first episode contained two plot lines that I found disturbing and perverse: . . . . Continue Reading »

Big IVF—for that is what it has become, a rich and politically powerful industry—objectifies human beings and distorts familial and other relationships in the name of making babies.  It objectifies women as egg farms and womb leasing merchants.  It objectifies embryos, what . . . . Continue Reading »

Good news on the Obamacare repeal front.  First, a key centrist Democratic Congressman wants to repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a matter of urgent concern about which I have raised the alarm.  From the story:Republicans have new a Democratic ally in their attempts to repeal . . . . Continue Reading »

For  years we have heard that we humans have caused CO2 to rise—and hence it is “physics,” to  use Al Gore’s terminology—that we are causing warming.  Proof was in the ice core pudding.  But then, we found that the earth warmed before the CO2 level . . . . Continue Reading »

I love the UK.  I really do. But it is going to hell, literally or figuratively—take your pick.  Latest example: Schools are showing Australian assisted suicide fanatic, Philip Nitschke’s, euthanasia film to children as young as 14.  From the story:Pupils are being taught . . . . Continue Reading »

A woman tried to commit suicide with rat poison late in pregnancy.  She survived, but her baby died after birth.  From the story:Bei Bei Shuai, 34, a restaurant owner who moved to the US from China 10 years ago, was pregnant and planning to marry her boyfriend until she learned late last . . . . Continue Reading »

The BBC will soon play a video of an assisted suicide—narrated by a famous euthanasia advocate—that took place in one of the Swiss suicide clinics.  This isn’t the first time such a thing has been done in the UK.  And of course, in the USA ,the pro euthanasia advocate . . . . Continue Reading »

I received an email from a reader today asking about the current status of Baby Joseph. The last I heard, he had the tracheotomy about a month ago. I decided to check, and here is what I found. From the story:The child known as Baby Joseph remains at a St. Louis hospital, more than three weeks after . . . . Continue Reading »

The other day I posted about Bolivia seeking to obtain a UN treaty that would grant equal rights to nature.  I think this is a particularly pernicious threat to human exceptionalism, and I am worried; not about today or even tomorrow, but that in a decade or so, this spear thrust could . . . . Continue Reading »