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Wesley J. Smith: Relativizing human life
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WJS: The Two Greatest Threats
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Equality-of-life ethics
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Universal human equality
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Human equality and rights
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Smith: Suicide Pacts Revisited
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Smith: Animal Rights and Wrongs
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Smith: Derbyshire and Darwin
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Smith: Saints and Singers
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Suicide Contagion
I have often argued that, as a matter of logic and intuition, the widespread legalization of assisted suicide will increase both the rate of assisted suicides and the rate...
The Impossibility of Christian Transhumanism
So-called “Christian transhumanism,” or the attempt to blend the transhumanist agenda with the precepts of Christian theology, has been around for some time. But there has been a recent...
Defending Catholic Healthcare
The threats against religious freedom in the United States have become so acute that five major Catholic organizations have formed the Catholic Health Care Leadership Alliance (CHCLA), a nonprofit...
Questioning Vaccine Mandates
The COVID vaccines have hardly ameliorated our disagreements over public health policies. Instead, they have made our disharmony more bitter. We are now divided into three distinct vaccine tribes....
Warning Signs in the Golden State
Liberals hope, and conservatives fear, that the Biden Administration will transform the nation’s values and public policies into those of “California.” As a recent story in the Los Angeles...
The Euthanasia Cancer Spreads
The West is tearing itself apart. The symptoms are evident in our bitterly divided politics and the attempts to punish those with heterodox views. But they are particularly evident...
