Wesley J. Smith

The always wonderful Canadian bioethicist Margarette Somerville has a terrific and thoughtful article about dying, disability, and the great meaning that can be found in these times of difficulty. It’s a long piece and I can’t do justice to it—for that you will have to read it for . . . . Continue Reading »

Great news from a behind the scenes source: I have just been told that SB 1114, the bill that would have explicitly legalized futile care theory in Idaho, has died for the year. It almost snuck by, but when opponents learned about it, they mounted an 11th hour campaign to prevent passage. That . . . . Continue Reading »

Oregon’s Health Services Commission has published the list of covered treatments under the state’s rationed Medicaid law. Comfort care is high on the list, and includes assisted suicide. But the overseers of rationed care explicitly state that treatment to extend life if the prognosis . . . . Continue Reading »

Philip Nitscke is the Australian answer to Jack Kevorkian who has spent years as a media darling opining that “troubled teens” should have access to suicide pills, teaching people how to commit suicide, creating the “peaceful pill,” a concoction of everyday products that can . . . . Continue Reading »

I thought I would look at a few of the statistics for SHS this evening. I am pleased. In the last 30 days, we have had more than 45,000 visits by some 36,000 distinct visitors. That’s about the size of a good crowd at Dodger Stadium. And the dailies are up a couple of hundred a day over a . . . . Continue Reading »

I know it is considered rude to point out in our postmodern times when facts are contrary to the narratives. And we have been through this before with greater fanfare. But having resisted posting the “story,” it finally became too much when I saw it reported again today for the umpteenth . . . . Continue Reading »

The following post will be about abortion and conscientious objection thereto by medical professionals. But it could just as easily be about assisted suicide, or using embryonic stem cell therapies, or pulling feeding tubes, because the principles are the same—as are the reasons for the . . . . Continue Reading »

Well, it was bound to happen. Adult fat stem cells are going to be used to increase breast size. From the story:A stem cell therapy offering “natural” breast enlargement is to be made available to British women for the first time.The treatment could boost cup size while reducing stomach . . . . Continue Reading »

Apologists for assisted suicide, such as the Los Angeles Times editorial board, pretend that the Final Exit Network is a fringe group that does not reflect mainstream assisted suicide advocacy, rather than, as I have clearly demonstrated here, at SHS, within the very heart of the assisted suicide . . . . Continue Reading »

I have written here often that the embryonic stem cell debate is merely the opening stanza of a much broader agenda that would instrumentalize unborn human beings for use in experiments, treatments, and for body parts. Alas, using fetuses in such a crassly utilitarian way has already been done. Back . . . . Continue Reading »