Wesley J. Smith

I have written about Haleigh Poutre nationally and several times here at SHS (here, here, here as examples), but this bears repetition until it finally sinks in. Scenario: Child badly beaten. Within a week or so Haleigh’s doctors write her off as in a persistent vegetative state. She will . . . . Continue Reading »

In Liberalism’s Troubled Search for Equality , Robert P. Jones takes the measure of contemporary assisted-suicide advocacy through a distinctly liberal lens. He has impeccable credentials for this task: He is the director and senior fellow at the progressive think tank Center for American . . . . Continue Reading »

If anyone thought that the international death with dignity crowd would allow Washington voters to decide for themselves whether to legalize assisted suicide, they were living in a fantasy world. The campaign was barely born last November and the Oregon Death with Dignity Political Action Committee . . . . Continue Reading »

Oregon has been trying to insure the uninsured in the state who do not qualify for its (rationed) Medicaid program. So many people want to sign up for subsidized insurance that the state his holding a lottery. From the story: Oregon is conducting a one-of-a-kind lottery, and the prize is health . . . . Continue Reading »

Here are some more important points in the newly released study, which I discussed more extensively here, that I think deserve special note. It turns out doctors have written lethal prescriptions for patients who weren’t yet suffering serious symptoms of their disease: No physical symptoms . . . . Continue Reading »

Assisted suicide advocates, when they are not striving to word engineer through use of the gooey euphemism “physician assisted death (PAD)”—which, alas, has been picked up by some professional journal authors—use scare tactics about unrelievable pain to sell the agenda. Well . . . . Continue Reading »

A nurse in the UK has been convicted of murdering four frail elderly patients with overdoses of insulin. From the story:Colin Norris, 32, believed he could kill with impunity, claiming four “frail and helpless” victims within six months by injecting them with lethal doses of insulin.He . . . . Continue Reading »

This is a nice profile of Denise Fuastman, who cured diabetic mice with a combination of substances, including spleen stem cells. As the story notes, she was severely criticized, but look at the nonsense reason the paper gives for those attacks:In 2001, Faustman said it was possible to cure type 1 . . . . Continue Reading »

Natural selection in action: Zebra learns a new survival mechanism that will be passed down the . . . . Continue Reading »

When I began writing my book on the animal rights movement, I believed that there was the “mainstream” movement—if that term is applicable to any ideology as radical as animal rights—and extremists who were violent and dangerous. And I puzzled at the generally muted or . . . . Continue Reading »