Wesley J. Smith

In a move that is utterly unsurprising, the Dutch are going to expand their euthanasia guidelines to permit the killing of infants. What a sick joke. Dutch doctors have been killing babies born with disabilities or terminal illnesses for more than a decade with nothing meaningful done about . . . . Continue Reading »

I have expanded on some themes I have been commenting on here recently in the Daily Standard. The article discusses the recent treatment success for paralysis using umbilical cord blood stem cells, the curing of mice with juvenile diabetes with adult spleen cells, and how for all of the wailing and . . . . Continue Reading »

Ah, those assisted suicide ideologues: They are always looking for just the right words and language to obfuscate that their agenda is about suicide and mercy killing. Now, facing defeat of their assisted suicide legalization bill, “Californians for Compassionate Choices,” (see what I . . . . Continue Reading »

Bioedge, which is a great weekly on-line newsletter that summarizes major news stories, professional journal articles, and other reports in bioethics and biotechnology (see link), has reported on a study that finds depression to be a key factor in requests for euthanasia in the Netherlands. The . . . . Continue Reading »

The alleged perpetrators of the grave robbing to drive that guinea pig farm out of business in the UK have been arrested. Good. The time is more than past for international law enforcement to crush animal liberation terrorism once and for all. Note these other “protest” tactics . . . . Continue Reading »

Ian Wilmut, the creator of Dolly, used to only want to clone animals for use in genetic engineering. He would never clone humans, he wrote in his book about Dolly. Then, when his animal cloning enterprise went financially belly-up, he moved into human therapeutic cloning experiments, receiving a . . . . Continue Reading »

Now this is telling: After all of the hype about how embryonic stem cell research holds much greater hope for cures than adult stem cell research, after all of the complaining that the field is being held back by funding limitations, here comes New Jersey accepting stem cell research grant . . . . Continue Reading »

There is nothing new in this Peter Singer opinion piece that he hasn’t written before, and more extensively. Being human isn’t what matters, it is being a person. In 35 years, we will have euthanasia, therapeutic cloning, etc. Only religious fundamentalists can object; yadda, yadda, . . . . Continue Reading »

There is an interesting and adoring article about Charles Darwin in today’s San Francisco Chronicle Insight section. The author, John Darnton, a New York Times journalist, celebrates Darwin’s intellect and his supposed turn from theist to atheist. (I have heard otherwise, but have no . . . . Continue Reading »

As readers of this blog and my other writings know, I have been warning for more than a year that therapeutic cloning will not long remain restricted to using early cloned human embryos in the Petri dish. And, I have pointed out repeatedly that New Jersey has already explicitly legalized . . . . Continue Reading »