Wesley J. Smith

I have a long piece out in this month’s First Things on the conscience clause issue.  I believe that the Culture of Death brooks no dissent and we are witnessing the beginning of requirements for health care professionals to either participate in medical procedures that end human . . . . Continue Reading »

The Senate version of Obamacare will tax elective cosmetic surgery. From the story:The bill levies a 5 percent tax on elective cosmetic surgery. The provision raises $5 billion and was needed to make the numbers work, according to a Democratic Senate aide. The Finance Committee considered the tax . . . . Continue Reading »

Each fall the CBC asks me to predict what will happen in the coming year in bioethics/biotechnology. To say the least, I have a mixed record.  I was more worried about 2009 than turned out to be warranted by events especially about assisted suicide which moved the ball not at all in the . . . . Continue Reading »

South Australia has rejected legalizing euthanasia as an MP had a last minute change of heart. From the story:A bill to legalise voluntary euthanasia in South Australia has been defeated in State Parliament when a supporter had a late change of heart. A conscience vote was poised to finish at 10-all . . . . Continue Reading »

The year 2009 amounted to a very good year against assisted suicide in the USA.  Despite the Washington initiative and a Montana judge’s activist legalization of assisted suicide, all legislative attempts in several states to legalize assisted suicide were blocked.  The latest . . . . Continue Reading »

A court decision in a case against the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) describes why its members (and, by extension animal liberation criminals such as, ALF, SHAC, etc.) deserve to be called terrorists.  From the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals decision U.S. v Christianson,  starting at page 12 . . . . Continue Reading »

Here’s some good news.  A child with cerebral palsy has been successfully treated with umbililcal cord blood stem cells.  From the story:The Levines were in luck: Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg, a professor of pediatrics and pathology at Duke University, was conducting a study where children . . . . Continue Reading »

I was so busy in the UK, I didn’t have the time to point out this story. New curriculum guidelines in the UK are apparently going to teach children that insects—mini beasts—are akin to other animals.  From the story:New curriculum guidance says the well-being of . . . . Continue Reading »

It has been a very interesting experience to debate assisted suicide here in the UK.  I had in-depth exchanges with three different advocates, one a Member of the Scottish Parliament, one a bioethicist from, I believe, the University of Glasgow, and Dr. Libby Wilson, the head of an assisted . . . . Continue Reading »

Well, this is good news: There has been no country whose people have been more subjected to the global warming propaganda bombardment than the UK.  The meme that humans are killing the planet is everywhere—on the tellie, road signs, at science exhibits, in entertainment programs, the . . . . Continue Reading »