Wesley J. Smith

They are so obvious—but too often, it works: If any limits are placed on experiments or funding of biotechnology, “the scientists” and their media apologists wring their hands, and warn darkly of a “brain drain” that will destroy competitiveness, cause people to die, or . . . . Continue Reading »

What a debacle: California has borrowed hundreds of millions to fund ESCR/human cloning, almost $300 million of which went into the most expensive, luxurious buildings that money can buy—all to “show Bush.” Fine, but now we are worse than broke, we are in danger of being a . . . . Continue Reading »

The articles urging that the dead donor rule be discarded to allow doctors to kill for organs are proliferating. I reported on a Nature editorial so advocating just a few days ago. Now a similar piece has been published in the Journal of Medical Ethics , written by F.G. Miller. I think it is . . . . Continue Reading »

I reported the other day that Nature editorialized in favor of loosening the rules to allow living patients to be killed for their organs (more about which, soon). And now, we see more advocacy for lethal medicine in The Journal of Medical Ethics, an international publication.  From the article . . . . Continue Reading »

As promised, I have written more extensively about the head prosecutor in the UK decriminalizing inter-familial assisted suicide. From my piece in the current Weekly Standard:On July 4, 1995, Myrna Lebov, age 52, committed suicide in her Manhattan apartment. The case generated national headlines . . . . Continue Reading »

Another day, another “NHS Meltdown” story. In this chapter, the majority of women who have a mastectomy for breast cancer are not offered reconstructive surgery. From the story:The NHS is letting down women with breast cancer by offering less than half of sufferers the chance to have . . . . Continue Reading »

The UK has fallen off a vertical moral cliff. First, the head prosecutor for England and Wales effectively decriminalized family and friends assisting the suicides of people with serious disabilities and terminal conditions .  Now, a coroner’s inquest has determined that physicians were . . . . Continue Reading »

I wrote some time ago about the awful and tragic case of Kerrie Woolterton. Woolterton was badly mentally disturbed, so much so, that she now only wanted to commit suicide but repeatedly tried to by swallowing anti freeze.  The last time she tried, she called an ambulance and then pinned a note . . . . Continue Reading »

It is really dangerous for a free country when bills are written so arcanely and in such a convoluted way that legislators have no idea what they are voting for or against.  A Senate Democrat has admitted this is the case with the upper house’s version of Obamacare, and hence, he . . . . Continue Reading »

Obamacare was supposed to be about providing “affordable” health insurance for all. But now, smokers and the obese may face penalties, perhaps even as high as 50%!  From the story:Despite opposition from more than 50 health groups, the Finance Committee approved an amendment . . . . Continue Reading »