Wesley J. Smith

By Alex SchadenbergA possible breakthrough treatment for people with ALS is being developed at the University of British Columbia (UBC) by Dr. Neil Cashman with results being published in the journal, Muscle & . . . . Continue Reading »

By Bobby SchindlerColumnist Joel Connelly chimes in again regarding the state of Washington’s effort (Initiative 1000) to legalize physician assisted suicide. You can read his previous column and Wesley’s remarks.Connelly exposes the overwhelming disparity as far as the money raised from . . . . Continue Reading »

By Jennifer LahlMy colleague, Evan Rosa, has a great piece here on the recent approval of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to award $271 million dollars in facilities grants to 12 academic and research institutions. 800,000 square feet of buildings to be erected by 2010 for . . . . Continue Reading »

By Alex SchadenbergThe Dignitas suicide clinic in Switzerland helped to kill 335 suicidal people in the past two years with 85 percent of them being foreigners.Ludwig Minelli, the director of the Dignitas suicide clinic in Zurich has recently released his statistics on the number of deaths at the . . . . Continue Reading »

By Alex Schadenbergeuthanasiaprevention@on.aibn.comJapan is reviewing its guidelines aimed at reducing the number of suicides in Japan and hopes to reduce the suicide rate by 20 percent by 2016.http://www.bloomberg.com:80/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=a_2Lhi9MAfY0&refer=japanJapan has been . . . . Continue Reading »

Matthew Hiasl Pan is the name given to him. Nice name except for one major detail. Pan is a 26 year old Chimpanzee. And in the radical animal rights activists mind Pan should be seen as, treated as and protected in law as a person.Thankfully the high court in Austria decided that only people get . . . . Continue Reading »

I am glad Alex decided to write on the award given to Dr. Hans-Joachim Sewering—a Holocaust doctor!—by a German medical association. A friend of mine, the Nazi hunter Dr. Bill Franzblau, helped bust Sewering years ago—leading to the bad doctor’s having to quit as head of the . . . . Continue Reading »

By Alex SchadenbergThe recent Australian guidelines on withdrawing medical treatment from people in a “unresponsive” state will not only encourage families to withdraw medical treatment from their family members but also to deny them basic care provisions. . . . . Continue Reading »

By Alex SchadenbergI read an excellent article by Marilyn Golden in the Capitol Weekly online explaining why California’s Bill AB 2747 that is sponsored by Patti Berg needs to be defeated.Marilyn Golden is a Policy Analyst at the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) which is . . . . Continue Reading »

By Bobby SchindlerHere is more on California Bill AB 2747 by disability rights advocate Marilyn Golden. Thankfully, this bill, which is being sponsored by California Assemblymembers Patty Berg and Lloyd Levine is being exposed for what it really is, a backdoor attempt to legalize physician assisted . . . . Continue Reading »