Wesley J. Smith

This is what happens when a country jumps off a vertical moral cliff.  First, the euthanasia numbers are climbing dramatically.  From the story:Last year, 700 official cases of euthanasia were reported. The figure is 40 percent up on the year before, as 2008 only had 500 cases. Experts . . . . Continue Reading »

First Things asked me to opine on the recently introduced New York legislation (A-9865) to enact a presumed consent law for organ donation.  Glad to oblige.  I open by identifying the problem.  From  “Presumptuous Consent:”Many more sick people need kidneys, hearts, . . . . Continue Reading »

The intractable problem PETA will never . . . . Continue Reading »

Many more sick people need kidneys, hearts, and livers than there are kidneys, hearts, and livers to go around. This shortage is the result of both decreased supply and increased demand. For example, public safety laws requiring that motorists wear seat belts and motorcyclists helmets have reduced the kind of catastrophic head injuries that often lead to organ donation… . Continue Reading »

Flemish doctors not only admit to killing patients who have not requested to be euthanized, but the levels of such terminations without request or consent are barely under the rate of legal voluntary euthanasia.  From the study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (may have to . . . . Continue Reading »

Pro assisted suiciders often claim that the only reasons to oppose euthanasia/self mercy killing are religious.  They will claim that opponents see suffering as “redemptive” and thus desirable—intentionally misstating that doctrine— and oppose mercy killing on the basis . . . . Continue Reading »

I warned and warned—here at SHS, on radio talk shows, in speeches—that the real dirty work of Obamacare would be done quietly, behind the scenes, by an army of faceless bureaucrats who will be directed to add the devil in the details of the bill.  Moreover, I prophesied, the bad . . . . Continue Reading »

There is an awful story about a suicide obsessed man named William F. Melchert-Dinkel, who allegedly helped counsel and teach the suicidal—including a Canadian college girl—to do the deed over the Internet.  He has been criminally charged with assisting suicide in two cases. From . . . . Continue Reading »

The ongoing deprofessionalization of American medicine was furthered by a just released opinion of the Committee on Bioethics of the American Academy of Pediatricians, which opined that female genital mutilation is wrong—gee, really?—but that pediatricians should, perhaps, be allowed to . . . . Continue Reading »

I just read a very detailed—and way too long for me to recount fully here—expose` in Der Spiegel, about Climategate and the bar room brawl between climate warming alarmist scientists (and I don’t meant that pejoratively) and skeptics.  It is a very important article and anyone . . . . Continue Reading »