Wesley J. Smith

I did an hour radio interview today on the Regina Brett Show, WKSU in Ohio, about so-called death with dignity.  A representative of the assisted suicide advocacy group Final Exit Network also appeared, along with two hospice professionals, also appeared on the program.  If you are . . . . Continue Reading »

A baby was born in France because his parents wanted to use his umbilical cord stem cells to treat the genetic disease of their existing children.  From the story:France’s first so-called “saviour sibling” was born in a hospital in the Parisian suburb of Clamart in late . . . . Continue Reading »

I have written here from time to time of what I call the coup de culture, which I define as an ongoing drive that seeks to shift society away from a value system based on Judeo/Christian moral philosophy—different from faith—based on human exceptionalism and a balance of duties and . . . . Continue Reading »

HSUS doesn’t generally pitch animal rights ideology in public.  It merely goes about its business of methodically seeking to dismantle animal using industries, what I have called a process of chewing from the outside in.  It is an effort that they know will take decades.But make no . . . . Continue Reading »

The continuing legal and political revolt against Obamacare is remarkable.  I am particularly struck by the refusal by more than half the states to cooperate with the law and/or seek to invalidate it in court.  I don’t recall a federal law attacked by the states in such a concerted . . . . Continue Reading »

The conservative UK columnist Melanie Phillips, who I don’t think is pro life, (not sure about that), makes some provocative points about abortion that are worth pondering.  She is appalled that UK doctors have been instructed to tell pregnant women contemplating termination that abortion . . . . Continue Reading »

It is well known that Nazi “doctors”  engaged in horrendous medical experiments with concentration camp inmates.  They thought it was fine and right to do so because they believed they were working on so-called untermenschen, that is, humans of lesser value.  There is no . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the terrible things about euthanasia and food and fluids cases, is the readiness by which many are willing to make despairing totally disabled people dead, that is, people who are fully conscious but completely paralyzed.  Indeed, recently Belgian doctors euthanized such a woman, and . . . . Continue Reading »

Nature has polled researchers who work with animals about the need for research and the impact that animal rights advocacy has had on their profession.  Here is a sampling.  From ” Battle Scars,” (24 FEBRUARY 2011 | VOL 470 | NATURE | 453, no link):More than 90% of respondents . . . . Continue Reading »

I am going to, perhaps, take a different approach to this dispute than some of my very good friends.  A baby in Canada, known as Baby Joseph, has an incurable neurological disease that will result in his eventual death.  The hospital wants to unilaterally remove him from life support . . . . Continue Reading »