Wesley J. Smith

Doctors deciding who will be allowed to fight to remain alive and who will be forced out of treatment is epidemic in the UK where nationalized health care combined with huge influence by utilitarian bioethicists results in some patients being thrown out of the lifeboat.This is a case of a near miss. . . . . Continue Reading »

Animal rights advocates and ALF apologists often say that they aren’t terrorists because all they do is burn buildings, and not hurt people. But they also terrorize their enemies with threats, like the one quoted below—intending to coerce her out of research by threats of burning her . . . . Continue Reading »

A few years ago this would have been a huge story. No more. The wind is slackening behind the embryonic stem cell research sails.Still, it is worth pointing out what the Times reported, and then, what they—so unsurprisingly—left out of the story: The scientists, at the biotechnology . . . . Continue Reading »

Lio meets Dick Cheney’s . . . . Continue Reading »

I admit that I am pleasantly surprised. The pro cloning bias among the political elite and media in Missouri make it almost impossible to get the straight information to the people of MO about this crucial ethical issue. When a new initiative to outlaw all human cloning was filed awhile ago, the . . . . Continue Reading »

I am still taken aback by the Hastings Center Report publishing a pro infanticide article—bringing that agenda into the heart of the bioethics mainstream. As is my wont, I wrote about it. This is a piece just published in the Center for Bioethics and the Culture’s weekly newsletter. Here . . . . Continue Reading »

California is in the midst of a financial meltdown. Red ink is spilling down the stairs of the Capitol. But of course, none of this affects the fiefdom that is the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine created by Proposition 71. As I wrote during the campaign, under its terms half the state . . . . Continue Reading »

Even though the Dutch are close to legalizing infanticide and nearly 900 patients are killed each year who have not asked for euthanasia, even though assisted suicide is permitted for the depressed in the Netherlands—heedless of the moral cliff off of which they are hurtling their . . . . Continue Reading »

I wrote the other day about the hype merchant, William Neaves of the Stowers Institute, continuing to tout embryonic stem cells—which he usually intentionally confuses with human cloning—as moving on the fast track to provide cures:“The rapid pace of advances in embryonic stem cell . . . . Continue Reading »

Can you imagine? Say, you are hit by a car and are rushed to the hospital by ambulance. It arrives at the entrance, and instead of being taken into the ER for immediate treatment—you are left waiting for hours so that the hospital can say you were treated within four hours of arriving at the . . . . Continue Reading »