Wesley J. Smith

I warned that the Swiss plan to restrict suicide tourism might falter—even though suicide clinics like Dignitas have profoundly embarrassed the country.  You see, once a society accepts killing as an acceptable answer to human suffering, the idea of placing meaningful limits on being made . . . . Continue Reading »

There is no denying the evidence that euthanasia consciousness leads to a broader culture of death that eventually accepts all comers.  Latest examples from the Netherlands, which probably has the most liberal legalized euthanasia law in the world: Dutch doctors creating a how-to-commit-suicide . . . . Continue Reading »

The great physicist Stephen Hawking, unlike some of the more radical environmental types who scourge us as the AIDS virus afflicting the planet, believes that it is crucial and worth spending untold resources to save human beings from extinction—simply because we are human.  From the . . . . Continue Reading »

Doctors commit infanticide in Netherlands and don’t face arrest.  Instead, they write learned articles about their infanticide practice in medical journals extolling the bureaucratic baby killing check list known as the Groningen Protocol.  But when a Dutch mother allegedly does the . . . . Continue Reading »

I received a surprise package in the mail a few weeks ago.  My friend Lisa K. Gigliotti has written a book: Coraggio! Lessons for Living From an Italian Grandmother. Lisa has rheumatoid arthritis and knows vividly what it is like to live a life in disabling pain and ill . . . . Continue Reading »

Eating meat is as natural to human beings as walking upright.  Evolutionary theory has found a good reason why: It made our brains bigger allowing us to become, to quote myself, exceptional.  From the story:Our earliest ancestors ate their food raw — fruit, leaves, maybe some nuts. . . . . Continue Reading »

The USA has abdicated good ethics by allowing IVF to go virtually unregulated. The consequences are profound and growing.  Rather than being a medical treatment for otherwise infertile married couples, IVF has become a lifestyle enhancer permitting parents to shop for the child they want like . . . . Continue Reading »

The USA has abdicated good ethics by allowing IVF to go virtually unregulated. The consequences are profound and growing.  Rather than being a medical treatment for otherwise infertile married couples, IVF has become a lifestyle enhancer permitting parents to shop for the child they want like a . . . . Continue Reading »

Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean, the very liberal former presidential candidate and head of the Democratic National Committee, says the individual mandatory health insurance purchase mandate is “not essential” to good health care reform and will be repealed or ruled unconstitutional. . . . . Continue Reading »

I have discussed the legal controversy in Washington in which the state seeks to force dissenting pharmacies to fill prescriptions against which they have a moral objection.  Most objections involve contraception and abortifacient drugs. But the issue could also apply to lethal prescriptions . . . . Continue Reading »