Wesley J. Smith

Texas has an awful futile care law. It permits hospital bioethics committees to impose members/doctors’ values that a patient’s life is not worth living based on quality of life.  A story just out shows the injustice of the process—a terrible law about which I write here in . . . . Continue Reading »

I don’t like much about Obamacare. But most urgently, I oppose its imposition of anti-American centralized control—in the sense that it is the antithesis of the Founders’ governing philosophy—and hopeless complexity over a huge sector of the American economy, as much . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh, good grief. Can you be more ignorant than to claim that “legitimately” raped women “rarely” get pregnant?  But that’s what the Republican candidate for U.S. Senator in Missouri, Todd Akin, did in an interview.  After stating that abortion should be . . . . Continue Reading »

Science gained tremendous regard in the last few hundred years because the knowledge thereby gained allowed us to improve the lot of the human race in ways few would have ever conceived in all of previous human history.  But a hubris has crept in—the mad scientist syndrome, if you . . . . Continue Reading »

First, he said that a man should divorce his wife with Alzheimer’s. Now, he says we shouldn’t adopt the needy children of the world.  But he supports orphanages.  Good grief!Update: Reader Ken thinks I done Pat wrong, that he was only saying he understood why men wouldn’t . . . . Continue Reading »

This is very disturbing. An autistic man has been denied a heart transplant, apparently because of his mental disability.  From the AP story:In a letter, dated June 13, 2011, Dr. Susan Brozena wrote: “I have recommended against transplant given his psychiatric issues, autism, the . . . . Continue Reading »

It has been coming for some time, but the top voices in bioethics—by which I mean those who inhabit the top floors of the ivory tower—are almost all blatant eugenicists.  That sure is from whence the first eugenics came from—and the pattern is repeating itself.  First, . . . . Continue Reading »

Tony Nicklinson, a UK man paralyzed with “locked in syndrome,” has lost his court request to be allowed to commit suicide—which would actually be euthanasia. From the Telegraph story:Under recent guidelines from the Director of Public Prosecutions only family members or close . . . . Continue Reading »

I have noticed that my writing seems to flow in patterns.  Much of that is caused by the flow of news, but I think some of it has to do with certain stories getting my attention, after which I connect dots and become acutely conscious of certain ebbs and flows of advocacy.  . . . . Continue Reading »

The Netherlands opened the doors to euthanasia way back in 1973. Since then, it has fallen off a vertical moral cliff with the killing agenda having spread to the pediatric wards. the mentally ill, and now stalking the elderly “tired of life”—all reported here and in my other . . . . Continue Reading »