Wesley J. Smith

Having just allowed women to risk their lives, limbs, and fecundity by selling their eggs for use in cloning, authorities are now about to open the door to genetic engineering. No one should be surprised. Brave New Britain is merely more open about where all of this cloning and embryonic stem cell . . . . Continue Reading »

In today’s NRO, Richard Doerflinger, who acts as the hub of the wheel for forces opposing human cloning, weighed in about Iowa’s pro cloning vote (and the AP’s bad reporting about it), demonstrating in his usual rapier fashion how it was based on misleading hype and the cruel . . . . Continue Reading »

Score another big victory for Big Biotech’s disingenuous and obfuscating propaganda campaign in favor of human cloning. Iowa has revoked its complete ban in order to permit research into SCNT in the state. And, as happened in Missouri, California, and ever other state that has debated the . . . . Continue Reading »

Under A.B. 374, nursing homes, hospices, group homes, rehabilitation centers, and other facilities (except acute care hospitals) cannot prevent assisted suicide from taking place in their facilities. This would include those with religious objections, since only acute care hospitals are authorized . . . . Continue Reading »

I have started to dig into A.B. 374 and it is the usual smoke and mirrors beloved of assisted suicide advocates. For example, I am sure we will hear about the safeguards against the mentally ill from being assisted in suicide. But the actual wording of the legislation belies this soothing notion. . . . . Continue Reading »

Rita Marker, the head of the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide was my mentor, after dragging me kicking and screaming getting into this line of work. Having read her wonderful Deadly Compassion, I was shocked to my shoes, and offered to give ten percent of my time to the . . . . Continue Reading »

Disability rights groups and others have met with the AMA in an attempt to prevent “Ashley’s Treatment” from becoming an acceptable practice in cases of children with profound disabilities. This is an important issue. Before another child is given what would normally be considered . . . . Continue Reading »

A baby has been born at one day less than 22 weeks gestation, has survived, and is doing well. This birth may have significant ramifications for abortion law because it reduces the time of viability to just over half a normal gestation period. It may impact futile care theory and the occasional . . . . Continue Reading »

Scientists keep looking for ways to obtain ES cells without destroying embryos. One potential source that some are now discussing is from the process known as parthenogenesis. This process stimulates an egg (which has 46 chromosomes before losing half during fertilization) to divide for a . . . . Continue Reading »

PETA has had trouble lately because its true colors have been showing. For example, this little story: Heather Mills, Paul McCartney’s estranged wife, has apparently been cut off by PETA from participating in its work because Paul McCartney’s family wants no part of her. McCartney is in . . . . Continue Reading »