Wesley J. Smith

President Obama and his cohorts in Congress are so dead set on passing a bill—any bill—they don’t care if they hurt the poor. And indeed, the current bills will by forcing states to widen—and pay for—Medicaid, which could break the bank. Moreover, the payments . . . . Continue Reading »

When I get around to writing about the top ten controversies in bioethics that I see coming in this decade, near the top will be the struggle to enact conscience clauses to protect the careers of physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals who still take the Hippocratic Oath and its . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the primary benefits I hope SHS provides is a real time  history of the issues and controversies we discuss here. The Danny Glover foot in mouth nonsense about the earth reacting to the failure of Copenhagen brought two such stories to mind from our archives.  First, trying to stop . . . . Continue Reading »

We all sighed and shook our heads at Pat Robertson’s ridiculous assertion that the Haiti earthquake was caused because the brave slaves who rebelled against France back in the 19th Century had “made a pact with the devil.”  But we should be just as dismissive of Danny Glover, . . . . Continue Reading »

Wow. It isn’t too often that the Chronicle of Higher Education echoes SHS, but an article on environmentalism becoming a religion comes very close.  From the article “Green Guilt” by Stephen T Asma (my emphasis):Instead of religious sins plaguing our conscience, we now have . . . . Continue Reading »

Global warming? What global . . . . Continue Reading »

Philip—let disturbed teens have access to suicide pills—Nitschke constantly reveals the death cult obsession that permeates the suicide/euthanasia  movement.  In the current episode, he warns his cult followers that helium as a death agent may  no longer be undetectable . . . . Continue Reading »

I just received private word that the New Hampshire Legislature rejected assisted suicide 242-113.  Excellent. Let’s keep holding the line as we push back with medical non cooperation in Washington, Montana, and Oregon.  The battle . . . . Continue Reading »

Union members will apparently be excused from paying the tax on Cadillac policies that all other such policy holders will pay. From the story : “Unions tentatively struck a deal Tuesday to exempt collectively bargained healthcare plans from a tax on high-cost plans expected to be used to help . . . . Continue Reading »

Have you ever seen such a botched and corrupt process?  Rather than focus reform on what needs fixing—access to insurance for the hard to cover—President Obama and his Congressional court jesters tried to remake the entire health care system. But the bill was based on expediency . . . . Continue Reading »