Wesley J. Smith

The U.S. Senate, in a pure party line vote, turned down an amendment that would have repealed the Affordable Care Act by 51-47.  No Democrats voted to repeal, and every Republican voted to repeal.Some are saying that more legislative votes have been cast to repeal Obamacare than enact it.  . . . . Continue Reading »

About ten years ago, Peter Singer praised a pornographic book about bestiality, and he was widely condemned.  Now, a new novel is out that contains graphic depictions of sexual intercourse between a woman and a chimpanzee, and it is receiving positive reviews in mainstream newspapers.  . . . . Continue Reading »

It is a sign of the times.  A novel is out with apparent transhumanist tendencies, in which a chimp is engineered to exhibit human characteristics.  And it has graphic scenes of human/chimpanzee sex.First, based on the SF Chronicle book review, it would appear that the The Evolution of . . . . Continue Reading »

I posted yesterday about a complaint filed by Planned Parenthood against a pharmacist who had refused to dispense anti bleeding medication, allegedly because she thought it followed an abortion. I wrote that based on the criteria I have proposed—not Idaho law—the refusal would not be a . . . . Continue Reading »

We are already seeing fallout from the momentous (at least for now) decision by Judge Vinson throwing the entire Obamacare law out as unconstitutional.  The administration has not yet (as far as I know) requested a stay or filed an appeal (as part of their apparent go slow strategy to draw out . . . . Continue Reading »

I was asked by a commenter to reflect on the following story and opine as to whether it would be a proper conscience clause refusal.  I do so here, taking the facts stated in the story at face value—and without judging the Idaho law in question with which I am not familiar.  Nor am I . . . . Continue Reading »

Over at Secondhand Smoke , I take some time to summarize and analyze yesterday’s big ruling in Florida voiding Obamacare as unconstitutional. But I think something more needs to be written here, as well as at SHS.  The Administration is apparently stating that since Judge Vinson did not . . . . Continue Reading »

The 78-page ruling in Florida by Judge Roger Vinson in a constitutional challenge brought by half the states against Obamacare is a deeply reasoned decision that is, I think, not only right on the law, but alongside the earlier Virginia decision declaring the ACA’s unconstitutionality, creates . . . . Continue Reading »

A Florida federal judge declared Obamacare’s individual purchase mandate unconstitutional.  Not unexpected, and I think, very right on the law.  But he also seems to have declared the whole law null and void, much further than the Virginia judge who also found the individual purchase . . . . Continue Reading »

And the winner is...Eggsploitation!This is a triumph for the Center for Bioethics and Culture (for which I am a compensated special consultant) generally, and its director, the indomitable Jennifer Lahl, specifically.  Eggsploitation—which warns against the health dangers of egg . . . . Continue Reading »