Wesley J. Smith

Scientists claim that the first hamburger made from stem cells may soon be available for consumption. From the Telegraph story:By generating strips of meat from stem cells researchers believe they can   create a product that is identical to a real burger. The process of culturing the . . . . Continue Reading »

IVF was promised as a generally minor matter that would be available for married couples, otherwise unable, to have biological children.  Of course, that relatively conservative agenda held for about two seconds. It is now a huge industry, with unmarried people using it to get . . . . Continue Reading »

I am traveling and so forgive my conscripting the magnificent Charles Krauthammer as the primary opiner in this post.  But he has splendidly, articulately, and very succinctly summarized the constitutional crisis that the Obamacarians have brought upon this country with either malice . . . . Continue Reading »

Yesterday, I bemoaned the latest historical revisionism about the passage of the federal law to protect Terri Schiavo. I am so sick of the pretense that it was a Republican theocratic game—when in reality, it was a very bipartisan bill choreographed through passage by the leaders of both . . . . Continue Reading »

Revisionist history strikes a beat; Into your heart it will seep: Latest example, a materially false opinion piece in the Atlanta Journal Constitution by Jay Bookman. First, Bookman says he was appalled by “political overreaching,” the second of which involved Terri Schiavo. From . . . . Continue Reading »

My wife, the syndicated San Francisco Chronicle columnist Debra J. Saunders, has a splendid column out today about the Anti Liberty Obama Free Birth Control Rule imposition.  She makes a few points I have not made here, so let’s take a look.First, she notes that the Obama imposition is . . . . Continue Reading »

The UK rations health care.  In the UK, people who want life-sustaining or extending treatment can be refused under rationing guidelines or physician refusal.  This is the system into which the British Medical Association wants Parliament to enact a “presumed consent” to organ . . . . Continue Reading »

Once, we looked to those who saved suicidal people from dying as the humane and compassionate heroes. After all, they valued the lives of everyone, even those unable to value their own.My how times change. Today, suicide promoters are the heroes.  Case in point: In the Netherlands, despite a . . . . Continue Reading »

I saw a story this morning that created a conflict between my heart and my head. An imminently dying man and his pregnant wife wanted him to be able to hold their baby before passing.  And so, doctors agreed to induce a two-week early birth to make that happen. From the AP Story:Diane . . . . Continue Reading »

Here we go again.  Just because a woman is “reassigned” (what a ridiculous term) as a male and allowed to be considered legally a man, that doesn’t change her biology.  We saw this in the USA when big media made a big deal out of a legal male/biological woman giving birth . . . . Continue Reading »