Wesley J. Smith

Rita Marker, head of the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, has an important piece out in the American Thinker revealing the assisted suicide advocates behind the notorious section 1233 end-of-life counseling provision of HB 3200.  And, she reveals that a senate bill . . . . Continue Reading »

The brouhaha over end of life counseling that caused the first of many leaks that have begun to sink the Obamacare boat was written by an assisted suicide advocate Congressman from Oregon named Earl Blumenauer—working in close association, with—surprise, surprise!—the assisted . . . . Continue Reading »

A major official has admitted that this most important public policy proposal was written intentionally so that it could not be understood by voters.  From the story:Hostility...will be intensified by a startling intervention by Karel de Gucht,...who suggested that the [bill] was designed so . . . . Continue Reading »

The September Scientific American has an interesting article about one of the things that marks human beings as exceptional—our mental abilities  to think and conceive uniquely from all other animals, which the writer calls the “mind.”Since this is Scientific American, the . . . . Continue Reading »

Well, this is both flattering and telling. A questioner at an online town hall brought up a point I have made about Obamacare to Indiana “Blue Dog” Congressman Baron Hill. From the transcript:Q: Congressman Hill, do you agree with Wesley J. Smith, author of “Culture of Death: The . . . . Continue Reading »

I was unaware of this case, but it falls squarely into the debate about Obamacare. A cerebral palsy patient on Medicaid will have to fight in court to receive the level of care prescribed by her physician.  From Jeff Emanuel’s blog entry at CBS.Com:In 2007, citing a disagreement with . . . . Continue Reading »

Jack Kevorkian, ever the compassionate one, has defended Michael Jackson’s doctor who may be charged with manslaughter in the singer’s death.  Why?  The doctor just gave Jackson “what he wanted,” e.g. powerful sedatives.  From the story:Assisted-suicide . . . . Continue Reading »

The President of the American Humanist Association has a blog out loving Marx for his naturalism, but decrying the wicked old Utopian’s acceptance of human exceptionalism. From the blog of David Niose: One such shortcoming is Marx’s tendency toward what might be called “human . . . . Continue Reading »

Bioethicist Jacob Appel can be relied on to promote the most radical bioethics agendas, assisted suicide for the mentally ill, fetal farming, you name it.  And now he has argued that if Montana affirms a constitutional right to assisted suicide in Montana, the state has a duty to make sure that . . . . Continue Reading »

An end-of-life protocol pushed by the UK’s National Institute For Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) may have resulted in patients being sedated and dehydrated to death before their time, a major story reports today in the Daily Telegraph . This is akin to Sarah Palin’s death panel . . . . Continue Reading »