Wesley J. Smith

Almost Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Daschle has a piece in Newsweek promoting national health care. Some of what he writes is accurate, but the column is utterly disingenuous in not mentioning the rationing issue.Daschle begins by noting that Medicare and Medicaid are popular programs, . . . . Continue Reading »

Pay close attention to how the story I am about to discuss from the Philadelphia Inquirer was written to give a favorable impression of a suicide. It is about a woman named Rona Zelniker, who killed herself because of a disabling disease. Note that the word “suicide” is never used . . . . Continue Reading »

Scientists in Japan have used animal research to explore a potential way around the organ shortage by growing transplantable organs in sheep made from stem cells. In this case, it is monkey organs, but within a decade, it could be human organs. From the story:Huddled at the back of her shed, . . . . Continue Reading »

The Pew Poll has published its latest results, dealing with gun control—beyond our scope here—and abortion. Given the politics of our rulers in Washington DC—which can only be described as pro-choice absolutists—I was surprised to note that the country appears evenly divided . . . . Continue Reading »

We need our newspapers!The problem is the quality of the editors:The problem is the quality of the reporters: The problem is the quality of the public: The problem is also the bias.When transhumanism becomes . . . . Continue Reading »

I never thought it would come to this, and I am not a fan of Ron Paul. But... Paul and others have introduced H.R. 2218, called the “Parental Consent Act.” The purpose of the bill is to prevent children from being subjected to mandatory mental-health screening without the express, . . . . Continue Reading »

American physicians are threatened by their government with being forced into an untenable position. On one hand, they are professionally obligated to render optimal care to each patient based on individual need. On the other hand, they are increasingly being called upon by bureaucrats and . . . . Continue Reading »

Jack Kemp died yesterday of cancer, with which he was only diagnosed in January. By the time it was caught, it had spread throughout his body. Those who knew him mourn, and those who didn’t, like me, give a tip of the hat in appreciation to the pubic service of a respectable politician.But . . . . Continue Reading »

The science intelligentsia and our betters among the liberal elite want what they want—and they aren’t about to be constrained by the rules of fair and honest debate to get it. Thus, in the euthanasia debate—which itself is a word that once did not mean mercy killing but was . . . . Continue Reading »

Poor Philip Nitschke, so unliked, misunderstood, and unwanted. Here he is on a mission of mercy to permit old people to take Mexican animal euthanasia drugs if they are tired of life and to ensure that troubled teens to have access to the “peaceful” suicide pill in grocery stores. (Yes, . . . . Continue Reading »