Wesley J. Smith

Is it ignorance, laziness, bias, or ineptitude, or all of the above? Not Dead Yet’s Stephen Drake exposes why so many people no longer trust so much of what media report: Journalists just can’t—or won’t—get the facts right, at least about cultural flash issues such as . . . . Continue Reading »

Bioethicist Jacob M. Appel, who has written that mentally ill people should not be denied the “opportunities” to commit assisted suicide, now pushes mandatory pre-implatation genetic testing in all IVF fertility treatments in order to weed out the unfit (my term) and for whom care would . . . . Continue Reading »

The remarkable advances of IPSCs are beginning to subsume ESCR, even among some within the science community. Thus the former head of the NIH and American Red Cross, Bernadine Healy, wrote in U.S News and World Report that IPSC and adult stem cell research successes have “diminished” the . . . . Continue Reading »

Relativism is the bane of our times, although it is still selectively applied. We tell teenagers to try not to have sexual intercourse, but if you do—which we know you will—then please use a condom. Yet, we still know how to be unequivocal in some areas: We tell kids, “Don’t smoke!,” not, . . . . Continue Reading »

Relativism is the bane of our times, although it is still selectively applied. We tell teenagers to try not to have sexual intercourse, but if you do—which we know you will—then please use a condom. Yet, we still know how to be unequivocal in some areas: We tell kids, “Don’t smoke,!”, not, . . . . Continue Reading »

In his recent book, Imagining the Future, Yuval Levin succinctly identified the source of so many of our cultural problems today. It was a real “Bingo!” moment for me: Society has ceased to be primarily about promoting virtue. Rather, our primary drive as a culture today is to prevent . . . . Continue Reading »

A few days ago I wrote that Ted Goodwin, one of the Final Exit Network assisted suicide defendants, was a mainstream figure in the assisted suicide movement. He certainly is that. But I made an error by writing that he had resigned as vice president of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies. . . . . Continue Reading »

Readers of SHS will recall the awful case of the baby who survived a late term abortion only to be—allegedly—put in a medical waste bag and literally thrown away. The abortionist already lost his license in the case, and now there has been an arrest. From the story:An abortion clinic . . . . Continue Reading »

The assisted suicide movement has the media eating out of the palm of its collective hand, by often getting reporters to adopt their lexicon—the euphemistic “aid in dying” as opposed to the accurately descriptive “assisted suicide”—and writing as if suicide were a . . . . Continue Reading »

I don’t believe a word of it. The notorious Italian fertility doctor claims that nine years ago he was able to bring three cloned babies to birth. From the story:A controversial Italian doctor known for his work allowing post-menopausal women to have children has claimed in an interview to . . . . Continue Reading »