Wesley J. Smith

The inestimable Will Saletan explores “the embryo factory” in Slate and, as is his wont, hits the nail on the head. He is writing about the Abraham Center of Life, which I commented about here at Secondhand Smoke last year. He writes that Jennalee Ryan, the entrepreneurial owner of the . . . . Continue Reading »

Doctors are planning to perform the first uterus transplant in a woman desiring the surgery so she can have a baby, not to save her life. This strikes me as moving onto dangerous ground where doctors reduce themselves from professionals into technicians. Medical professionals have responsibilities, . . . . Continue Reading »

Have you noticed how bitter some advocates for ESCR seem to be about the ongoing and ubiquitous advances in adult stem cell research? Well, here’s another story to raise their dander: Catherine Verfaillie, who first demonstrated that a certain type of bone marrow stem cell is multi-potent and . . . . Continue Reading »

George Dvorsky, the radical transhumanist—well, now there’s a redundant phrase—has come up with a long list of terms of which “intellectuals” should be aware. These include:”Cosmological Eschatology (aka physical eschatology): CE is the study of how the Universe . . . . Continue Reading »

Thanks to China’s one child policy, mixed with what I consider to be a eugenics mindset that sees boys as more valuable than girls—certainly based in part on cultural issues and the perceived need of parents to be cared for in old age—there will soon be 30 million more men of . . . . Continue Reading »

You will probably have to be a lawyer to enjoy this post: The American political system is fascinating. Our founders established checks and balances and divided sovereignties to prevent any single governmental body or institution from gaining too much power. As a consequence, we experience many . . . . Continue Reading »

Euthanasia activists in Belgium want to expand the law to permit the euthanizing of children and the mentally incompetent. Is anyone . . . . Continue Reading »

This is rather shocking, but somehow, not surprising: According to an advocacy campaign to increase donations being mounted in Scotland by Enable Scotland, which helps developmentally and other disabled people live independent lives, animal charities help receive higher public support than those . . . . Continue Reading »

This is so typical of the euthanasia movement: On one hand, they want doctors allowed to render what is essentially a non medical act—intentionally facilitating suicide—thereby slapping a patina of professional respectability upon the act. Then, on the other hand, after legitimizing . . . . Continue Reading »

Charles Krauthammer is not pro life. He is not, as far as I know, religious. He is an MD and a psychiatrist, who became one of America’s most erudite pundits after becoming paraplegic in a swimming accident years ago. This, according to the media, should give him as much moral authority as . . . . Continue Reading »