Wesley J. Smith

Oh, to live to see the day! (Hint: Look at his . . . . Continue Reading »

Regular readers of SHS will (I hope) recall the comment I made the other day about an article in the Journal of Pediatric Nursing that was so neutral on infanticide, it seemed to me to be greasing the skids toward moving policy toward professional permissability. In that entry, I said in . . . . Continue Reading »

If this is true, it is huge. A breakthrough in preventing tissue rejection may permit animal parts and organs to be transplanted into humans—a process known as xenotransplantation. From the story:Blood vessels, tendons and bladders from animals are to be used in humans for the first time . . . . Continue Reading »

I was doing a little research and came across an article of mine, “Depressed? Don’t Go See Kevorkian,” published in the New York Times all the way back in 1995. Anyone interested, can check it out here.Then, I thought I would see whether the very first piece I ever published about . . . . Continue Reading »

The purveyors of popular culture never tire of pushing the euthanasia/assisted suicide agenda. We see it in movies, often made from pro-assisted suicide books, e.g., Million Dollar Baby, The Sea Within, One True Thing. Many of the top television dramas have had pro-assisted suicide themes, sometimes . . . . Continue Reading »

The zeal to demote humans into apes, and thereby destroy human exceptionalism, continues. The National Geographic has an extended article in the April 08 issue—which I saw in the dentist’s office today—entitled “Almost Human.” It is about some chimps—all given . . . . Continue Reading »

The hubris of the Brave New Worlders—and their folly—is on abundant display in this story about a future in which 100-year-old women will give birth. From the story:Woman will soon be able to give birth at the age of 100 due to advances in fertility treatment, scientists have . . . . Continue Reading »

Natural selection in the metrosexual . . . . Continue Reading »

In my recent Weekly Standard article about Spain’s pending legal adoption of the Great Ape Project, I worried about the consequences that would follow from demoting human beings from the moral pinnacle. I wrote:Should that come to pass, the ancien régime (as they view it) based on the . . . . Continue Reading »

I have heard from the Jesse Ramirez family—and the news is good. Readers of SHS may recall that Ramirez was badly injured in an auto accident and quickly pronounced in a PVS. His wife wanted his feeding tube pulled, but this was resisted by his family. Litigation ensued, and—he woke up. . . . . Continue Reading »