Wesley J. Smith

A new study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry finds that—as pro lifers have long insisted—women who have abortions experience high rates of psychological problems.  From the Telegraph story:Women who have abortions are at risk of severe mental health problems, new . . . . Continue Reading »

LA Times’ business columnist, David Lazarus (who I knew slightly when he worked at the SF Chronicle), writes about a man who just died of cancer after a private insurance company refused to pay for an experimental treatment that could have extended his life. (Note, the company paid for . . . . Continue Reading »

Is anyone surprised? According to the British Medical Association Journal 10%—a likely under count—of suicides involve people with physical illnesses.  The Telegraph has this excerpt:At least 10 per cent of suicides that take place in England involve people with either a chronic or . . . . Continue Reading »

Wayne Pacelle is the head of the Humane Society of the United States.  He is very slick, sophisticated, and runs HSUS as if it is only about animal welfare.  I don’t believe it for a second.  HSUS works diligently to make meat raising more expensive and morally marginalized, . . . . Continue Reading »

Good grief.  I was hoping the Feds would come to their senses and drop this case, but as I learned while actively practicing law, once bureaucratic prosecutors go into action, they never let up.  Common sense has nothing to do with it.Jeremy Hill shot and killed a 2-year-old male grizzly . . . . Continue Reading »

I regularly comment on issues of relevance to the futuristic social movement that goes by the name of transhumanism. I am not impressed, both sharply disagreeing with its fervent anti human exceptionalistic/eugenic mindset, and finding its yearning for corporeal immortality rather sad.  As I . . . . Continue Reading »

I have seen a couple of stories lately on a radical new last ditch cancer treatment involving extensive surgery and then a 90 minute bath directly on organs of hot chemotherapy. Significant questions remain about efficacy. A column in the NYT discusses the history of severe cancer treatments in . . . . Continue Reading »

The abortion industry often operates under clinical standards lower than that for outpatient or cosmetic surgical standards. That may soon change in VA and pro choice advocates are screaming. From the Virginia Pilot story:Perhaps most worrisome to clinic operators is a mandate that they must meet . . . . Continue Reading »

Society is oozing “compassion” as a reason to kill these days.  Self starvation is being promoted in the NYT. Assisted suicide is treated by many commentators and advocates as a necessity. And now a mother who killed her healty 8-year-old says she was justified in killing him to . . . . Continue Reading »

This season’s Torchwood, which was once fun science fiction—a spinoff of Dr. Who—has this season, become great science fiction.  Shades of Death Takes a Holiday, the plot line has human death suddenly stopping, beginning with a child sexual predator/killer who survives his . . . . Continue Reading »