Wesley J. Smith

I am trying harder to report outcomes involving stories covered here.  Toward that end, a social worker disciplined for giving a colleague an anti-abortion tract has settled her case.  From the Telegraph story:A Christian mental health worker who was sacked over her stance on . . . . Continue Reading »

The question of who should have the final say about when to cease life support—patients/families or doctors/bioethicists (Futile Care Theory)—is among the most important bioethical issues we face today.  But surely, such questions should be approached as a general matter rather . . . . Continue Reading »

The newest edition of the The Human Exceptionalist is out.  And among the stories we cover are the claims that we don’t really have free will.  I touch upon the importance of that issue in my letter of introduction. From the July 31, 2012 Human Exceptionalist:Dear Exceptional . . . . Continue Reading »

I have twice written here about “freedom of worship’s” attack on “freedom of religion,” that is, the attempt to shrink free exercise into a mere right to worship .  President Obama has pushed that theme once again in his speech at a White House dinner celebrating . . . . Continue Reading »

There Obama goes again, reducing “freedom of religion”—more accurately, the “free exercise thereof”—to a puny “freedom of worship, which I have warned against repeatedly, mostly in the context of Obamacare and the “Free Birth Control Rule.”  . . . . Continue Reading »

We are told Romneycare was the proving grounds for Obamacare.  If that is so, there is much to worry about now that MA has a new law targeting doctors’ fees.  From, “Health Law Treats Docs Like Villains,” by Alex Vuckovic in the Boston Herald:As of last week, thanks to . . . . Continue Reading »

We don’t know what factors lead to a propensity for homosexuality.  (Frankly, I don’t think any “one” thing, but that’s an unexpert opinion.) But some believe we will discover a “gay” gene.  If so, that has very real eugenic . . . . Continue Reading »

Every once in a while I like to check in on the machinations of the transhumanists and their immorality materialist eschatology.  I oppose transhumanist theory because of its inherently eugenic premises and proposals, it’s anti human exceptionalism, and most especially, its presumption of . . . . Continue Reading »

I am writing an e-book about the anti humanism of the Green movement.  More on that as it is ready to come out.  But for the moment, let us note what Patrick Moore—an early mover and shaker at Greenpeace before disassociating himself with the radicals—has said about the . . . . Continue Reading »

Earlier this week I wrote in the Weekly Standard about the decision in Newland v. Sibelius, granting a preliminary injunction against enforcement of the Free Birth Control Rule against a family and its business.  After reading the decision, I decided that it might be worthwhile reading the . . . . Continue Reading »