Wesley J. Smith

Infanticide—for which doctors were hanged at Nuremberg—is becoming an increasingly commonplace issue of debate. Indeed, it seems to me that the notion of killing babies is now precisely where abortion was in the 1960s. And we know what happened then.But back to the point at . . . . Continue Reading »

When IVF began, we were told it was only to permit infertile married couples have children. It has since expanded geometrically to become an industry that also includes eugenic options, commercialization of gametes and uteruses, and facilitation of what were once called . . . . Continue Reading »

Liberal columnist E.J. Dionne makes an intriguing suggestion in today’s Washington Post.  If Obamacare is ruled unconstitutional, he suggests, that could allow the widely disdained law to become more popular. From, “Will We Love Healthcare If It Dies?”Maybe now, supporters of . . . . Continue Reading »

A prominent blogger has converted from atheism to Catholicism, raising a few issues about human exceptionalism that we have discussed here. From the CNN Belief story:Leah Libresco, who’d been a prominent atheist blogger for the religion website Patheos, announced on her blog . . . . Continue Reading »

Bioethicist Art Caplan has written a righteous post decrying the “silence” of the world to the outrage of N. Pakistan banning polio vaccination of its children.  From, “Where is Outrage Over Pakistan Polio Vaccine Ban?”:By deciding to hide behind babies as a way to fight . . . . Continue Reading »

Proposition 29 was strikingly similar in concept to Proposition 71, which created the benighted California Institute for Regenerative Medicine in 2004.  Proposition 29 would tax cigarettes. Proposition 71 borrowed money.  Both were designed to use the money thereby obtained to . . . . Continue Reading »

Donald Berwick, the late (as in former) temporary head (via recess appointment) of Medicare—the cowardly Democrats wouldn’t even hold hearings on his nomination because he supports rationing—makes the best case possible for Obamacare in the Washington Post.  But it . . . . Continue Reading »

We hear sometimes from pro abortion types that fetuses are nothing of moral note until they are born—and sometimes not even then, e.g. personhood theory.  We are sometimes told that during prenatal care, only the mothers are patients.  Yet, a story just came out about life saving . . . . Continue Reading »

Patients diagnosed as persistently unconscious may be the most scorned people on earth. I mean, who else could be called a turnip or carrot with impunity?  It is within the context of this “unrepentent bigotry”  that I analyze a hopeful story about increasing efforts to . . . . Continue Reading »

Science writer Ronald Bailey took to the pages of Reason last month to extol egg freezing as a splendid technology to promote female equality. Here’s the meme: Since men can father children even into old age, it is “discriminatory” (bad Darwin!) that women’s biological . . . . Continue Reading »