Wesley J. Smith

As regular readers of SHS know, I worry a lot about the growing trend to instrumentalize human life and use it as a natural resource.  Thus, I have opposed federal funding of ESCR, human cloning, redefining death for organ harvesting purposes, fetal farming, etc.I think there is a real ethical . . . . Continue Reading »

There is a significant constitutional question hanging over the entire Obamacare project: Is it constitutional to require citizens to buy health insurance?  This is no minor question, but Obamacare pushers have generally refused to engage.The Administration has been asked about the matter for . . . . Continue Reading »

Pro lifers have long asserted that the ultrasound could make a profound change in the way people view abortion. Strong support for that view came in a story today of a Texas Planned Parenthood executive changing sides after watching an abortion via ultrasound.  More details over at Secondhand . . . . Continue Reading »

Pushers of Obamacare have a mantra: “Affordable health care.”  But the current plans would tax medical devises such as pace makers, which will increase the cost of care!  From a column at NRO byDeroy Murdock:Obamacare promises to make medicine cheaper by making it costlier. . . . . Continue Reading »

The swine flu shot was reportedly given to some Brooklyn school children without parental consent. From the story:School nurses mistakenly gave the swine flu vaccine to two students who didn’t sign up for it - including a Brooklyn girl with epilepsy who wound up in the hospital. “I . . . . Continue Reading »

Australia’s suicide obsessed Philip Nitschke is bringing his how-to-kill-yourself class to the USA.  I have a piece about his planned San Francisco suicide lecture in today’s San Francisco Chronicle. From the column:Shouldn’t there be limits to assisted-suicide permissiveness? . . . . Continue Reading »

There have been interesting polling, occasionally reported here, about how the country seems to be moving in a pro life direction, with the Gallup Poll now showing a majority opposing abortion.  One reason seems to be that improved imaging techniques have verified the humanity of gestating . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been warning that the drive has been renewed to expand the number of organ donors by opening the door to killing for organs, in this column about.  Now, another article in the journal Bioethics, by Christian Coons and Noah Levin, add new targets to the list of potential . . . . Continue Reading »

Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. David Janda has a blistering commentary on the newest House version of Obamacare that succinctly and powerfully illuminates the danger to all of us—well, not the elite who never are bound by the same rules—if this monstrosity passes. From his column . . . . Continue Reading »

I  am very concerned that too many of us complacently believe that the reigning societal value under which we were raised—the sanctity/equality of human life—continues to control society. But that is no longer true. We are in the midst of an attempted coup de culture that seeks to . . . . Continue Reading »