Wesley J. Smith

One of the supposed protections of euthanasia is the doctor saying no when, as one example, when killing isn’t warranted.  (Doctors also say know if participating in killing of a patient is against conscience, of course). Ditto assisted suicide in Oregon and Washington.But . . . . Continue Reading »

David Brooks is no conservative, even though he is supposed to fill that role on the NYT op/ed page.  (Actually, Ross Douthat does.)  He has a column today criticizing the Obama Administration’s Free Birth Control Rule.  And like too many liberals, he is primarily . . . . Continue Reading »

This is the consequence of the ridiculous practice of legislating to headlines too often seen in the states’ legislatures and Congress.  In this case, Jack Kevorkian was publicly promising to assist suicides.  And what did the brainiacs in the Georgia Legislature do in . . . . Continue Reading »

I suspect the Obama Administration will try and back off their anti Catholic “free birth control” rule because it is very bad politics.  But first, they will try to spin it as not anti religion.  They will pretend it isn’t narrowly drawn.  And that’s just what . . . . Continue Reading »

As the Planned Parenthood/Komen debacle continues to unfold, I still believe that Planned Parenthood has been badly wounded going into the future.  What metaphor should we use?  The bloom is off the rose?  No, PP is nothing like a flower.  The wolf has thrown off the . . . . Continue Reading »

Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker writes about the intimidation tactics wielded by the Left against the Catholic Church with Obama’s Free Birth Control Rule and in the How Dare Komen defund the sacrosanct Planned Parenthood! brouhaha.  She starts her column with an unintentionally . . . . Continue Reading »

Komen has surrendered and kissed the abortion ring.But that’s okay.  I think the pro choice fury directed at Komen was a huge PR debacle for PP and its supporters.  For years, the organization has used ancillary services such as breast cancer screening—which does not . . . . Continue Reading »

The good people at To The Source asked me to expound further on the thesis enunciated in my NRO article of a few days ago, accusing the Obama Administration of a full frontal assault on freedom of religion by trying to substitute the far more restricted concept of “freedom of worship” . . . . Continue Reading »

I told you so. The scientific/bureaucratic complex, I warned in the Weekly Standard, now losing their fight to control the world’s economy in the global warming fight, would soon turn their attention to obesity and propose the same kind of “remedies” to control what we eat as they . . . . Continue Reading »

This is rather stunning.  The Hill is reporting that Rep. Jackie Spier is leading the charge for liberals to abandon the Susan G Komen For The Cure charity because it has stopped funding Planned Parenthood.  From “House Dem Abandon Susan G. Komen After Planned Parenthood . . . . Continue Reading »