Wesley J. Smith

A few weeks ago I posted about a surprising Pew Poll that reported a dramatic shift toward the pro life position on abortion in the last year. Now the respected Gallup Poll has reported similar findings and discovered that for the first time, a majority of people identify themselves as “pro . . . . Continue Reading »

The scent of health care rationing is in the air. But I have noticed lately that many who support the concept push the agenda by not actually discussing health care rationing. Case in point: Ellen Goodman’s fuzzy recent column, “A Rational Talk About Rationing Care.” Goodman starts . . . . Continue Reading »

I have noticed lately that the political left, which most supports health care rationing (and which, ironically, yells the loudest about HMO care restrictions), argues disingenuously for the agenda through the time-tested tactic of blatant misdirection.Classic example, the fuzzy and reliably emotive . . . . Continue Reading »

I wrote earlier about my worry that two competing bills filed in Texas about the state’s discriminatory futile care law—one to put on a few bows of surface reform, the other to end the right of hospitals to refuse wanted life-sustaining treatment—would end up in gridlock. This . . . . Continue Reading »

Once we have national health insurance, the Death Angel will be given a medal . . . . Continue Reading »

This is a sad but glorious story of selfless maternal love, which I think, would have once been the expected course: A doctor recounts a long ago decision of a woman diagnosed with brain cancer to delay surgery in order to bring her baby to birth. From the story : For the neurosurgeon, the verdict . . . . Continue Reading »

In the next few weeks, if all goes according to plan, you will notice some changes around here at SHS. My site will be added to the First Things family of blogs, which should increase our already steadily growing traffic and may—I’m not sure about this—change our look. I believe . . . . Continue Reading »

This is a sad but glorious story of selfless maternal/paternal love, but I think that at one time, it would have been the expected course: A doctor recounts the decision of a woman diagnosed with brain cancer to delay surgery in order to bring her baby to birth. From the story:For the neurosurgeon, . . . . Continue Reading »

Abortion was supposed to liberate women and protect them from unwanted pregnancies. But with prenatal testing and all, it is increasingly being used as a eugenic search and destroy tool to eliminate unwanted types of children prior to birth. In other words, eugenic abortion mixed with . . . . Continue Reading »

Abortion was supposed to liberate women and protect them from unwanted pregnancies. But with prenatal testing and all, it is increasingly being used as a eugenic search and destroy tool to eliminate unwanted types of children prior to birth. In other words, eugenic abortion mixed with . . . . Continue Reading »