Wesley J. Smith

In addition to pushing assisted suicide, groups like Compassion and Choices yearn for respectability and desire to be seen as legitimate care givers for patients, at least in an informational context. That was part of the point last year when California passed AB 2747, requiring doctors to inform . . . . Continue Reading »

As I have often said, the culture of death brooks no dissent. The Bush “conscience clause” regulations protecting health care workers from being discriminated against in their employment for refusing to participate in medical procedures with which they disagree on religious or moral . . . . Continue Reading »

It is sickening to read the proposed bureaucratic forms that patients and their death doctors will fill out and send to the state when planning assisted suicides. Twenty years ago, people would have called me a total paranoid if I predicted this is what we would become. I wouldn’t have . . . . Continue Reading »

Each year the Center for Bioethics and Culture asks me to prognosticate about the coming year. This year, that duty is painful. I believe we are entering dark days. But it is my job to call them as I see them without honey coating. (This is an abridged version. For more details read the original . . . . Continue Reading »

With The Independent on a tear because moral concerns might have been behind the failure of scientists to garner public funding to conduct human cloning with animal eggs, we get this badly needed assurance. From the story: Reports in the British media that grant applications to create hybrid . . . . Continue Reading »

Slate’s Will Saletan—a favorite of mine even though we often disagree because he is a very good writer and unfailingly honest in his reportage—is onto the story of the baby girl born in the UK who was selected in—as her siblings were destroyed—because she did not have a . . . . Continue Reading »

Pig and I have much in common:Yes, it’s . . . . Continue Reading »

I posted yesterday about how “the scientists” in the UK are whining because their human/cow embryo cloning scheme has not been funded by the government. I said that once their whining hit the papers, things would change quickly, because in the UK—what the scientists want, the . . . . Continue Reading »

Some people talk—and some people act. In the latter category are the good people in Massachusetts who operate The Medical Safeguards Project. Understanding that people with developmental disabilities are at particular risk in our increasingly utilitarian health care system, the Medical . . . . Continue Reading »

To The Source asked me to write an essay for its newsletter on what I call biological colonialism. I was pleased to comply. From the article: Commentators who reflect on this moral crisis [the weakening of the sanctity/equality of life ethic] usually focus on “culture of death” issues . . . . Continue Reading »