Wesley J. Smith

The Department of Health and Human Services will publish its Final Rule tomorrow protecting the rights of conscience for health care workers who refuse to perform medical acts with which they morally disagree. The rule specifically applies to abortion and sterilization. But it also has a general . . . . Continue Reading »

In this edition of What It Means to be Human, I get into conscience clauses as a potential way for us to co-exist together, given our profound cultural differences over what I call “an emerging culture of death.” I conclude: I strongly support the rights of conscience for health care . . . . Continue Reading »

Can you imagine the if ” the experts” suggested that genetic tests be done on all pregnant women to screen for supposedly undesirable racial characteristics or a propensity for homosexuality (if that could be done), with the goal of vastly reducing the number of babies born with those . . . . Continue Reading »

I have written about Philip Nitsckhe before. He is the Australian doctor who is obsessed with suicide machines and making sure that anyone who wants to kill themselves be able to do so, including—as he stated in an NRO interview—“troubled teens.” With the new . . . . Continue Reading »

This is obviously a brilliant parody. But it made me think about the same kind of junk advocacy I have heard from politicians pushing embyronic stem cell and human cloning research. We have been told that embryos aren’t really embryos, they are just cell balls. We have been told that the act . . . . Continue Reading »

Apparently assisted suicide is becoming a big topic in Sweden, and so I have been asked by Radio UPF, out of the University of Lund, to speak on the issue of “suicide tourism.” They stated that opinions like mine aren’t heard all that often, and so they asked for some of my time. I . . . . Continue Reading »

I am very pleased that people literally from all over the world are coming to SHS. The new counter lists 94 countries in less than a week. The latest visitor was from the Palestinian Territories. As-salaam . . . . Continue Reading »

The Discovery Institute’s embryonic Center for Human Rights and Bioethics—of which I am a part—is very concerned with working to prevent slavery and human trafficking. That is why we were so pleased that the William Wilberforce Trafficking and Victim’s Protection . . . . Continue Reading »

I have never fully gotten my mind around all of the issues involving reproduction. Women have a near absolute right to abortion—absolute in some places—while at the same time, to ensure that people who want babies can have them, we almost literally move mountains. For example: Using IVF, . . . . Continue Reading »

This link will take you to part three of my interview on Walden’s Pond, in which we deal with the radical environmental movement and its deleterious impact on the importance of human exceptionalism and he concomitant increase in nihilism that leads to the culture of death. I’m trying . . . . Continue Reading »