Wesley J. Smith

A victim of ancillary targeting in the UK has testified in a criminal trial about the kind of hell he experienced merely for working for a company that had a relationship with Huntingdon Life Sciences. From the story: William Denison says what happened to his family at the hands of ALF extremists . . . . Continue Reading »

I believe that the issue of “conscience,” that is the right of physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals not to engage in intentional life-terminating actions will be huge in the coming decade in bioethics. It has already begun in Italy after a father won the right in court . . . . Continue Reading »

Kenya is a very poor country. But some among the assisted suicide crowd apparently see it as prime pickings for the well off in that country, with suicide tourism for profit being proposed. From the story:Kenya could become the first country in Africa to legalise doctor-assisted suicide if lobbying . . . . Continue Reading »

This is a story about love. It is also a story about community. And, for some, it will be perceived as a story about taking the reverence for life beyond reasonable limits.A child became profoundly disabled in a terrible mishap and now, having suffered a catastrophic brain injury, requires full-time . . . . Continue Reading »

I have an extended piece in the Weekly Standard on the Montana judge declaring it a “fundamental right” do “die with dignity”—e.g. to poison oneself with prescribed drugs—which as I noted in an earlier SHS posting about this, may be the only time that an advocacy . . . . Continue Reading »

Secondhand Smokette and I decided to go on a date and, against our better judgment, went to see The Day the Earth Stood Still. We expected some enviro-propaganda, but I must say it was even more extreme than I expected. I wrote about it over at the First Things blog:Earth pushes the mantra of . . . . Continue Reading »

My wife and I decided to go see The Day the Earth Stood Still , which, based on reviews, we expected to be radically green. But it is much more than that. Earth pushes the mantra of deepest ecology: Humans are the literal enemy of Earth, which, the script strongly implies, is a living entity. At . . . . Continue Reading »

I have written several times about Dr. Hootan C. Roozrokh, who was once accused criminally of trying to hasten a patient’s death with drugs after he didn’t die when his respirator was removed prior to a planned organ procurement. Dr. Roozrokh had no business even being in the operating . . . . Continue Reading »

What an expensive joke the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has become. Conflicts of interest are rife, leading to a Little Hoover Commission investigation. Management meltdowns have mixed with an incredible sense of entitlement and hubris. Hundreds of millions that were promised to go . . . . Continue Reading »

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Jay Bookman has written a difficult but, I think, important column on the distinction between the moral value of a beloved dog coming to the end of its life and those of human beings. Any pet owner can only have great empathy for the grief Bookman is . . . . Continue Reading »