Wesley J. Smith

The promoters of the “after-birth abortion”—which has been removed from the Journal of Medical Ethics website—have issued a non-apology apology.  They were just misunderstood and misrepresented don’t you know. But that dog won’t hunt so I took to . . . . Continue Reading »

Disability rights activists are indomitable opponents of legalizing assisted suicide and an essential constituency in the diverse and broad-based coalition that opposes the death agenda.  Now, a new DR organization has been founded to fight against the pending Massachusetts initiative that . . . . Continue Reading »

A court has ruled that prison officials may force feed inmates on hunger strikes to prevent their deaths or physical harm. From the AP story:Connecticut prison inmates who go on hunger strikes can be restrained and force-fed to protect them from life-threatening dehydration and malnutrition, the . . . . Continue Reading »

Of course he did: President Obama campaigned for office promising to heal our divisions and build bridges across our cultural divides. But he has intentionally and I believe maliciously—at least in the sense that he wants to poke cultural conservatives in the eye—governed in the most . . . . Continue Reading »

The “after-birth abortion” article continues reverberate, this time in a column by Telegraph columnist Jenny McCartney, who takes issue with the bioethicists’ claim that a newborn and a fetus are equally killable because of their supposed mutual lack of personhood. But . . . . Continue Reading »

The invaluable Bioedge has done it again.  A member of the Dutch royal family was severely injured and brain damaged.  But according to Bioedge, the family had to take him to London for treatment because there are no specialized centers for treating the severely brain damaged people over . . . . Continue Reading »

Radical bioethics—and that constitutes much of the mainstream, in my view—continues to push for a wider death agenda.  Last week, we discussed an article in the Journal of Bioethics that promoted the propriety of infanticide for even healthy babies if that best served the . . . . Continue Reading »

This wasn’t supposed to happen.  Most of the arctic ice has returned despite the planet melting into a spinning ball of lava.  From a column by meteoroligist Mark Johnson story:Good news from the Arctic. Sea ice extent (area covered by ice) is at a seven-year high. It’s . . . . Continue Reading »

Once a month or so, I edit a newsletter for the Discovery Institute called The Human Exceptionalist.  The point is to present a variety of stories across a broad array of different issues to illustrate the breadth and scope of the challenges to human exceptionalism.  From my introductory . . . . Continue Reading »

Social fascism is rising in California. So is intolerance. And, while we are at it, McCarthyism.  What else can we call the drive in the California Legislature to fire the nonsalaried president of the California Fish and Game Commission (Daniel Richards) because he legally hunted a . . . . Continue Reading »