Wesley J. Smith

Apparently the defense of the Final Exit Network defendants is going to be based in free speech. From Derek Humphry’s blog entry urging fellow travelers to pony up for the FEN defendants’ legal defense fund:Inevitably, the cases against the Final Exit Seven will be a landmark in American . . . . Continue Reading »

An increasing number of well off Western couples are renting wombs of poor women in India to gestate their children.  From the story:One leading obstetrician at a Mumbai hospital says she delivers on average one baby to a British couple every 48 hours. One London couple who have taken advantage . . . . Continue Reading »

A horticulturist named George Ball warns against the growing anti humanism of radical environmentalism in a piece in the Wall Street Journal.com .  But rather than focus on the disease—the rejection of human exceptionalism— he gets distracted by the symptoms, e.g., violent tactics . . . . Continue Reading »

A horticulturist named George Ball writes a piece in the Wall Street Journal.Com warning against the radicalization of environmentalism.  From, “Naturalism Has Been Hijacked: Man is Not a Cancer on the Planet:”Now a segment of the Green movement presents a fresh challenge to . . . . Continue Reading »

Compassion and Choices has touted a commentary from a blogger named Cynthia Yokey extolling hospice that, unfortunately, also sends a highly misleading message about acute medical treatment.  From the quote cited in the C and C blog entry:In the acute care system, you continue to receive . . . . Continue Reading »

Rodney Coronado, now in a penitentiary for teaching people how to make an explosive devise with the intent that someone commit a violent crime—and convicted previously of torching an animal research lab—a terrorist who admits he committed other crimes for which he was not caught, is the . . . . Continue Reading »

As we move into health care reform, the issue of health care rationing is coming to the fore. Instituting Futile Care Theory—the putative right of a doctor to refuse wanted life-sustaining treatment based on his or her values as to the quality of the patient’s life—is the opening . . . . Continue Reading »

The Journal of Critical Care Medicine, has long supported Futile Care Theory—the putative right of doctors to refuse wanted life-sustaining treatment based on their values as to the quality of the patient’s life. This imposition is justified as being beneficial to the patient—even . . . . Continue Reading »

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The media push suicide as an acceptable answer to human difficulty. The latest example is a column by St. Louis Post Dispatch columnist Bill McClellan, who extols the suicide of an elderly man as a “gift” because of the discussion about mortality it inspired.  Think of the message . . . . Continue Reading »