Wesley J. Smith

This is what we are becoming, aborting viable fetuses because they will not be physically perfect—and the the UK government wishes to keep it all under wraps. From the story:It centres on mothers who opt for termination because their unborn babies have been diagnosed with conditions such as . . . . Continue Reading »

I wish I could say I was surprised, but judges have decided they get to decide all of our social issues today. A Montana trial court judge has legalized assisted suicide in Montana. From the story.A Montana judge has issued a ruling saying residents of the state have the right to doctor-assisted . . . . Continue Reading »

Robert Klein, whose money and political muscle was behind Proposition 71 that convinced Californians to foolishly borrow billions to pay for human cloning and embryonic stem cell research, is only in it for the cures, or so he has always said. Well, that assurance no longer applies. Not content to . . . . Continue Reading »

The UK’s Independent has published an excellent feature story on the beliefs and theories of Lady Warnock, one of Britain’s most influential moral philosophers. (We’ve discussed her views previously here at SHS.) Warnock is an enthusiastic purveyor of the culture of death, . . . . Continue Reading »

My good pal Ralph Nader often has complained of the “revolving door” between government regulators and legislators and the big corporations that are subject to regulation, giving the corporations, in his view (to which I subscribe), undue influence over their own oversite.But the same . . . . Continue Reading »

This blog doesn’t deal with global warming per se, but it does worry about the corrupting influences on science and media exerted by ideology. Mostly, we have deconstructed this problem in the area of biotechnology. But the corruption has permeated the physical sciences, too, most particularly . . . . Continue Reading »

The New York Times has noticed the crass utilitarianism that permeates the UK’s NHS—run by the Orwellian-named bioethics board National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)—and seems to be softening the ground for our accepting similar utilitarian overlords here. . . . . Continue Reading »

Dick Sosey is an American professor who teaches at the University of Alberta, Canada, and is an expert on issue of discrimination against people with disabilities. In response to a story published in the Denver Post about the murder of a boy with autism by his father, which Sobsey perceived to be . . . . Continue Reading »

In this week’s edition of my podcast, What It Means to be Human, I discuss the media’s fascination with, and often fawning reportage about suicide outlaws. Here is the . . . . Continue Reading »

Luxembourg is hell bent on enacting euthanasia legislation, but the sovereign Grand Duke Henri refuses to sign the bill, which would prevent it from taking effect. What to do? Change the constitution! From the story:Luxembourg was plunged into a constitutional crisis on Tuesday after the sovereign, . . . . Continue Reading »