Wesley J. Smith

Assisted suicide advocates are cultural imperialists who, as they pretend they only want a “limited” change in law and culture, actually seek to widen and expand the euthanasia/assisted suicide license through the use of  loose definitions and broadly worded . . . . Continue Reading »

President Obama made a very unfortunate—but telling—analogy last month, comparing the public option in health care to the Post Office competing with Fed Ex and UPS. I commented on the problems with that argument from the pro Obamacare perspective at the time.The metaphor continues to cut . . . . Continue Reading »

My thesis, which has yet to be effectively rebutted, is that Big Biotech and the Bioethics Establishment want zero meaningful ethical parameters to be placed permanently around its stem cell/cloning/genetic engineering enterprise.  I was in a debate last week at Biola University against . . . . Continue Reading »

Dario Ringach was formerly a researcher at UCLA who used monkeys to learn whether an optical implant in the brain and attached to glasses could help the blind to see. But he was driven out of his work by terrorists who cared more for the monkeys than the blind, and were willing to terrify a family . . . . Continue Reading »

The UK Dept. of Public Prosecution has now formally issued its assisted suicide decriminalization guidelines. It is a terrible document that abandons people who are dying, and seriously disabled.The guideline, which is to be used by local prosecutors, lists assisted suicides that should be . . . . Continue Reading »

We’re calling you out, Mr. President. You have repeatedly said that Medicare benefits will not be cut under Obamacare.  Well, according to the Congressional Budget Office, that is flat-out not true. From the story:Congress’ chief budget officer is contradicting President Barack . . . . Continue Reading »

The air of superiority in among the global warming hysterics tells me, at least, that we should not follow them into the potentially anti-human,  unprosperous, and far less free future into which they wish to take us.  Latest example, our own Secretary of Energy, who has called us . . . . Continue Reading »

On September 9, I was asked to appear on a web-cast for the Family Research Council about Obamacare. (I would also appear at a NOW web-cast, if asked.) It was a pretty good interview, if I don’t say so myself, with interlocutor Tony Perkins.  Here it is for your approval or . . . . Continue Reading »

The defenses of the NHS are growing so untenable.  In the latest horror story, one in six patients receive misdiagnoses.  From the story:As many as one in six patients treated in NHS hospitals and GPs’ surgeries is being misdiagnosed, experts have warned. Doctors were making mistakes . . . . Continue Reading »

A UK woman was implanted with the wrong embryo and will have to give birth to another woman’s child. From the storyA pregnant mother will have to give birth to another couple’s baby after a blunder by an IVF clinic. Carolyn Savage had the wrong embryos implanted into her and will have to . . . . Continue Reading »