Wesley J. Smith

For years I have been warning that bioethicists are getting their ducks in a row to permit them to refuse wanted life sustaining treatment that is removed because it keeps the patient alive, not because it doesn’t provide medical benefit. These are value judgments, not medical determinations. . . . . Continue Reading »

Are we human beings or “eco-beings?” Not sure exactly what the latter term means, but as used by Albert J. Bergesen, professor of sociology at the University of Arizona in the San Francisco Chronicle, it appears to mean that we are equal with—meaning no better than—rocks, . . . . Continue Reading »

This case looks like a Futile Care Theory case. The headline, as usual, calls it a “right to die” matter. But it appears to really be a right to live. (I never cease to be amazed at the pack mentality of the MSM.) The hospital wanted to cut off an elderly patient’s feeding tube and . . . . Continue Reading »

Lord Joffe has authored an assisted suicide bill in the UK House of Lords that, he promises, will restrict assisted suicide to the terminally ill. Only, that is not his goal. As he told the Sunday Times (London), “I can assure you that I would prefer that the [new] law did apply to patients . . . . Continue Reading »

Morris Dees is something of a hero of mine for his indomitable struggle against white supremacist organizations such as the Aryan Nation. We have met a few times and he strikes me as a humble, earnest man of high integrity and conviction.Dees’ Southern Poverty Law Center is one of the . . . . Continue Reading »

I am sure Tom Cruise was kidding when he said he would eat his new baby’s placenta. I shrugged it off, and firgured the idea was an urban legend. Then, I began to see some items that it is not unheard of. Which got me to thinking: The placenta is a human organ. Wouldn’t eating one be a . . . . Continue Reading »

There is an ongoing pretense in assisted suicide advocacy the euthanasia/assisted suicide is merely a medical matter of “last resort” that is to be reserved only for dying people when nothing else can be done to alleviate suffering. But this planned assisted suicide clinic that will . . . . Continue Reading »

This story details what we have heard before: The private money is voting with their closed checkbooks about the prospects for the near and mid range futures of embryonic stem cell research and therapeutic cloning. Issues of uncertainty of the technology, patent disputes, the continuing moral . . . . Continue Reading »

This story from Wired remains anecdotal, but it illustrates two important points: First, there is far more going on to help people with degenerative conditions than therapeutic cloning or embryonic stem cells. In this experiment, rats were injected with a hydrogel, similar to that found during . . . . Continue Reading »

This note from a reader seems right to me: “I have noticed in stories about Hwang’s research, the media almost always gets SCNT right. But when it comes to an initiative or funding in the U.S. they always get it wrong and overtly refuse to get it right. It is really curious. Maybe it is . . . . Continue Reading »