Wesley J. Smith

A pro life activist who routinely held up photos of aborted fetuses as a form of protest has been repeatedly shot and murdered. From the story:OWOSSO, Michigan — State police at the Corunna post have confirmed a well-known anti-abortion activist was shot multiple times and killed this morning . . . . Continue Reading »

I admit I didn’t see the president’s speech tonight. I was on a plane to Washington DC to appear tomorrow night in a Webcast put on by the Family Research Council on Obamacare.But I have read it.  I’m tired and have to get up early tomorrow, and so I don’t want . . . . Continue Reading »

I consider myself a Martin Luther King liberal, which is to say, I am now called a conservative.  As a man who has co-authored four books with Ralph Nader, that still seems surrealistic to me.  Nevertheless, I have reluctantly concluded that the Left (generally) isn’t interested in . . . . Continue Reading »

My secret fantasy is to be a great political cartoonist, since these masters of political advocacy can paint an a polemic picture that truly is worth more than a thousand words. I think the cartoon to the left is a good example of the genre. It really scores because the image of the president . . . . Continue Reading »

There seems little question that Sarah Palin has defined the terms of the Obamacare debate. I still disapprove of her “death panel” and “evil” comments.  And her first try at justifying the provocative term was factually erroneous. But now, she has it nailed.  . . . . Continue Reading »

The bioethics Establishment is at it again, desperately trying to pretend that the general movement doesn’t support what it supports in regard to Obamacare. From the statement, “Three Myths About the Ethics of Healthcare Refrm,” by the Association of Bioethics Program . . . . Continue Reading »

I have a cover story on the current advances of assisted suicide in the USA in the current National Review . The discuss the “Myth” of Oregon’s supposedly problem free experiment with assisted suicide, the recent legalization of assisted suicide in Washington and Montana, and a . . . . Continue Reading »

Secondhand Smokette weighs into the HBO Jack Kevorkian puff biopic today. How do I know it’s puff when I haven’t seen it?  It is based on the unpublished book of the same name by Kevorkian acolyte Neal Nichols, who is so enamored of his subject he once allowed K to inject him with . . . . Continue Reading »

I was asked by the National Review to write a story for the magazine on the recent advances made by the assisted suicide movement.  It is the cover story.  From the article:The assisted-suicide movement has come a long way in just a couple of decades. Consider, for example, this recent . . . . Continue Reading »

He talks!—and talks, and talks: I was interviewed for the Derek Gilbert podcast recently about Obamacare, health care rationing, the danger of bioethics to the vulnerable, animal rights, and human exceptionalism.  If anyone is interested, just hit this link.  . . . . Continue Reading »