Wesley J. Smith

I have traveled to the UK several times at the request of anti-euthanasia campaigners to help in their battle to oppose legalizing assisted suicide. The Joffe Bill may or may not get out of the House of Lords, and I could be wrong, but my sense is that the legislation is in deep trouble. There . . . . Continue Reading »

Stories like this receive way too little attention. A cancer patient in the UK seriously considered assisted suicide, but is now very glad he didn’t do the deed and opposes the Joffe Bill that would legalize Oregon-style assisted suicide. I know of several stories like this, including my last . . . . Continue Reading »

The family of Andrea Clark has announced that she died peacefully, surrounded by her loved ones: “Andrea passed away peacefully a little before 3pm today, with her family and her friends at her bedside. We love her so very much and we are going to miss her terribly. We hope that the battle . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been warning for years now that the animal rights movement is seeking to create moral and legal equality between humans and animals. One tactic is to have courts permit animals to become litigants in court, with animal liberationists as their guardians ad litem. In other words, the animal . . . . Continue Reading »

This seems an interesting speech by President Bush on the promises and perils of science. Among the President’s thoughts:“Science offers the prospect of eventual cures for terrible diseases—and temptations to manipulate life and violate human dignity.”“With the . . . . Continue Reading »

A few years ago UCSF tried to clone human life and failed. This story indicates that they are going to give it another try. One of the reasons I posted the link is that the misleading headline aside (eggs are not cloned, cloning creates embryos), the reportage by Chronicle science writer Carl Hall . . . . Continue Reading »

Mary Pilcher Cook is a Kansas State Representative who is about as indomitable and dedicated a legislator as I have ever met. She is honest, committed, and moral. One of her primary causes is to outlaw all human cloning in the great state of Kansas, an issue that has made her a lot of political . . . . Continue Reading »

Now this is interesting: Two senators, both from Pennsylvania and on opposite sides of the therapeutic cloning debate, have co-sponsored legislation to fund research into ways to obtain pluripotent stem cells without creating and destroying embryos. Research pursuing my friend Bill Hurlbut’s . . . . Continue Reading »

The National League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)has voted to opposes assisted suicide and California’s AB 651 that would legalize Oregon-style medicalized killing. Here is the gist of the press release from LULAC announcing its position:“According to Angel G. Luévano, . . . . Continue Reading »

A Court of Appeals has ruled that terminally ill people have the right to access experimental drug treatments that might save their lives. Ruling that dying patients have a basic “right of self-preservation,” the court held that experimental drugs that have passed the first phase of FDA . . . . Continue Reading »