Wesley J. Smith

The media is justly celebrating the release from the hospital of a baby born prematurely at 24 weeks, named Melinda Star Guido.  From the CBS story:At birth, Melinda Star Guido weighed less than a can of soda - only 9 1/2 ounces. After spending close to the first five months of her life at the . . . . Continue Reading »

It is hard to find a more pro choice country than Canada, particularly among the country’s medical establishment.  But apparently sex selection abortions are becoming a “problem,” and so the Canada Medical Association Journal wants to outlaw telling a mother the sex of her . . . . Continue Reading »

About a week ago, I was contacted privately about a situation that has since hit cyberspace very hard. A developmentally disabled girl, I was told, was being denied an organ transplant solely because of her disability.  I made some private suggestions about what the parents might want to . . . . Continue Reading »

As I am asked to do each year by the Center for Bioethics and Culture, I looked into the future to see what will happen in matters bioethical. This isn’t mystical prophesy. Rather, I look at the facts as I see them now, and project out to where I think they will lead. Thus, my . . . . Continue Reading »

Very strange happenings in my pal Dean Koontz’ new novel, 77 Shadow Street—which opened at number 1 on the NYT Bestseller List. Terrible things happen every 38 years to residents of the old Victorian mansion—now an upscale cooperative called The Pendleton. And now, . . . . Continue Reading »

On to the mentally ill!  That is the message of a new article in the Dutch language tijdschrift voor psychiatrie 53 (2011) 8 (Journal of Psychiatry).  I’ll skip the nonsense about great care being shown, and “hopeless” conditions—which the article doesn’t say . . . . Continue Reading »

The Belgian medical establishment’s enthusiastic embrace of euthanasia has been breathtaking and appalling to behold. Now a study is out stating that a euthanasia counseling service is being underutilized by Belgian doctors.  From” Implementation of a service for physicians’ . . . . Continue Reading »

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has allowed a Texas law to go into immediate effect that requires doctors to demonstrate that a fetus is a living being 24 hours before a termination.  From the Kaiser Health News story:A federal appeals court ruled Friday that a new Texas abortion . . . . Continue Reading »

Decadence strikes a beat, into your heart it will seep—to paraphrase a rock classic.  But now, that term has reached a new low in the Netherlands as two men “promoted organ donation” (???) by appearing on a television program purporting to eat tiny pieces of each . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh good grief.  As I recounted in detail in Consumer’s Guide to a Brave New World, the human cloning/embryonic stem cell research company, Advanced Cell Technology, has been masterful at getting itself—and its chief scientist Robert Lanza—in the news.  Here, for example, . . . . Continue Reading »