Wesley J. Smith

This is a great story of democratic governance.  Awhile ago, I was informed that Idaho was poised to pass a bill explicitly permitting futile care impositions based on quality of life.  It had passed one house unanimously under the radar as part of a larger bill, much of . . . . Continue Reading »

The article published in the Journal of Medical Ethics called “After Birth Abortion: Why Should the Baby Live?”—which I addressed here a few days ago—is getting a lot of attention in the blogosphere.  So, I decided that I would move past the argument over infanticide, . . . . Continue Reading »

Perhaps it is me, but since the passage of Obamacare and its radical push for cost-containment, I have noticed a big spike in the number of articles trying to convince people to let go when they become seriously ill rather than fight to stay alive.  The latest example is in the Wall Street . . . . Continue Reading »

A bill has been proposed in New Hampshire to protect medical conscience.  You’d think I’d be thrilled, right?  Wrong.  This bill would permit doctors to refuse to save the life of a patient and to discriminate against people based on invidious bigotry.The intent is . . . . Continue Reading »

Francis Cardinal George, the Catholic archbishop of Chicago, has a column up warning about four potential consequences of the Free Birth Control Rule on charitable and non profit institutions associated with the Catholic Church. It makes for sad reading because I don’t think Cardinal . . . . Continue Reading »

The human cloning agenda has stalled because of what I call the “egg dearth.”  Here’s what I mean: Each try at somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) cloning to manufacture a human being (or, member of the species Homo sapiens, if you prefer) requires a human . . . . Continue Reading »

Obamacare is a debacle. It vests tremendous, unprecedented power into the hands of the executive branch through bureaucratic mandates—such as the anti-Catholic and autocratic free birth control and nearly everything else that can be construed as “reproductive” health mandates. It . . . . Continue Reading »

The Georgia Supreme Court threw out a badly written law that made it a crime, essentially, to advertise to assist suicide but not actually do the deed.  Bad law led to an unforunate, but I think correct, legal ruling.  But it left Georgia as a wild, wild, West of assisted suicide with no . . . . Continue Reading »

The Journal of Medical Ethics prints many articles that illustrate vividly just where many members of the increasingly radical bioethics movement would take us.  Most recently, it published an article stating that infanticide should be permitted—regardless of the health of . . . . Continue Reading »

Let no one doubt the anti liberty agenda of Obamacare.  In place of traditional American liberty based on the principles of limited government, Obamacarians are erecting a bureaucratic state, complete with centralized control, cronyism, ideological impositions, benefits to favored . . . . Continue Reading »