Wesley J. Smith

Good science and good ethics go together like bread and butter.  Now, scientists have used cell reprogramming to treat Huntington’s disease—which killed Woodie Guthrie and remains incurable—in rats. From the Michigan Live story:A stem cell treatment investigated for . . . . Continue Reading »

Central Control has released the “National Bioeconomy Blueprint” that outlines how the sector can transform our struggling economy into soaring prosperity, and how the government-business partnership will make that happen. Perhaps, but why do I keep seeing visions of the public . . . . Continue Reading »

There is tremendous pressure being placed on doctors and other medical professionals to eschew their own moral consciences in the provision of medical services—as distinguished from treatments.  Now, in the UK, doctors who refuse to perform gender reassignment surgeries and . . . . Continue Reading »

I am always leery of undercover video “stings,” but I think this one bears noticing.  Live Action is an adamantly anti Planned Parenthood organization headed by Lila Rose, which has exposed PP in the past—such as demonstrating that, contrary to the assertion of the . . . . Continue Reading »

I believe that humans are distinguished from all other known life by differences that are moral in naure, not merely biological.  For example, while our bipedalism has certainly helped us become who we are, it is not what makes us exceptional. After all, penguins are bipedal too.But our moral . . . . Continue Reading »

There is an astonishing intolerance of pro life speech among those who rule in the power structure.  I think of Paster Walter Hoye, arrested in Oakland for merely passing out anti abortion material and conversing with women about not terminating their pregnancies.  But at least we (still) . . . . Continue Reading »

The perceived entitlement of the West sickens.  We now believe our lives are so important that with biological colonialism, some of us are willing to work with criminal gangs to grab the kidneys of the vulnerable destitute.  There is a shameful report out of the UN illustrating just how . . . . Continue Reading »

I am very confident that the Obama anti-Catholic and religious liberties “Free Birth Control Rule,” as it applies against religious institutions with dogmatic objections, is doomed by the First Amendment.  I had always assumed the case would be decided by the Supreme . . . . Continue Reading »

I have begun to argue that controlling health care costs will require that we make a greater distinction between medical “treatments” and “services.” Treatments involve diagnosing and treating actual disease (roughly stated), while services involve using medical . . . . Continue Reading »

The quest for male birth control, other than of the latex kind, has moved a step closer with the discovery of a gene involved in sperm production.  From The Independent story:A contraceptive pill for men which works by preventing sperm development could result from the discovery of a new gene, . . . . Continue Reading »