Wesley J. Smith

I’m finally getting around to reading President Obama’s stem cell speech. It contains the usual bromides about how we are in danger of falling behind in science, yadda, yadda, yadda. But it also seems oddly oxymoronic to me. First he said: I can also promise that we will never undertake . . . . Continue Reading »

The New York Times’ editorial extolling the lifting the Bush stem cell funding policy—as it ignores the purely gratuitous trashing of the Bush order requiring funding for “alternative sources”—is the usual mix of ignorance and ideology that typifies its side’s . . . . Continue Reading »

We all know that President Obama rescinded the Bush funding restrictions for ESCR. But that isn’t all he did today. He also rescinded Executive Order 13435 of June 20, 2007 . The Administration didn’t publicize this part of the President’s nasty work, but the now dead 2007 Bush . . . . Continue Reading »

We all know that President Obama rescinded the Bush funding restrictions for ESCR. But that isn’t all he did. He also rescinded Executive Order 13435 of June 20, 2007.What is that? Of course, the Administration didn’t have the candor or courage to publicize this part of his nasty work, . . . . Continue Reading »

I have looked more closely at the awful Idaho futile care bill, S 1114, which I first addressed earlier today. Here are two more extremely objectionable clauses that show the intent to create a duty to die for the most infirm—and expensive for which to care—among us. From section394504A . . . . Continue Reading »

The legislative process has become so overwhelming, that unless one hires a professional lobbying group to keep track, laws can pass quietly without any public attention at all.That seems to be the case in Idaho, where the Senate has passed a Texas-style futile care bill. The bill is so bad, it . . . . Continue Reading »

President Obama lifted the Bush ESCR restrictions—unleashing gushing hyperbole in the media and among “the scientists” about the technology that I frankly don’t have time to deconstruct. But Drudge is touting his promise of no cloning. From the story:President Barack Obama . . . . Continue Reading »

Terminal nonjudgmentalism and a refusal to do anything concrete lest one be thought mean or worse, conservative, is a problem that leads to a wide range cultural subversions—from the suicide counseling of the Final Exit Network to the new eugenics of destroying embryos that tests show will be . . . . Continue Reading »

The media—and I must say, the new Administration—continue to confuse and conflate policy differences with science. And the lifting of the Bush funding restrictions on ESCR is providing the excuse. From the story:The decision by President George W. Bush to restrict funding for stem cell . . . . Continue Reading »

Don’t get me wrong: I would object to assisted suicide even if it were ever going to be truly restricted to people with terminal illnesses. But of course, that isn’t the goal, and it sure isn’t the reality. The Final Exit Network illustrate this—although most of the obtuse or . . . . Continue Reading »