Wesley J. Smith

Wow. Pig is an SHS commenter:How Richard Dawkins spends his . . . . Continue Reading »

The Indian crisis of sex selection abortion is worsening. From the AP story:More and more Indian families with one girl are aborting subsequent pregnancies when prenatal tests show another female is on the way, according to a new study published Tuesday. The decline in the number of girls is more . . . . Continue Reading »

Head global warming hysteric Al Gore does terrible harm to the cause about which he espouses so passionately. Not only is he a supreme hypocrite in the carbon intensive way he lives and the money he makes off the issue—as he accuses his opponents of venal motives—but his beyond . . . . Continue Reading »

The Obama Administration is, unsurprisingly, not happy that Indiana has cut off its special pet Planned Parenthood from Medicaid payments.  And it threatens to do something about it.  But apparently, that “something” is cutting off the federal share of Medicaid funding to the . . . . Continue Reading »

Gallup has a interesting new poll out.  When asked whether “pro life” or “pro choice,” more say the latter than the former. From the poll:Americans are closely divided between those calling themselves “pro-choice” and those who are “pro-life,” now . . . . Continue Reading »

Suicide has become an obsession in certain quarters, and for a few suicide pushers, the basis for a personal cult.  Australia’s Phillip Nitschke is one such cult leader.  Nitschke is a blatant death-on-demander, who has for years pushed suicide machines, the “peaceful . . . . Continue Reading »

The headline caught my eye, “Prescribing Jesus Gets Doctor Censured.” I turned to the story fully expecting to write a post that “prescribing” Jesus or any religion was not their job, that doctors should only prescribe medically. But then when I read the story, I saw that it . . . . Continue Reading »

Since the Nuremberg Code, protecting human subjects has always been thought more important than the speed in which research could be successfully brought into clinical application.  But the world of medicine is growing increasingly utilitarian, and I have wondered how long that ethos would . . . . Continue Reading »

Wouldn’t it be nice if the purpose of pushing prenatal testing for Down syndrome was to assure that fetuses testing positive would be later welcomed into the world in full preparation for the medical challenges that sometimes arise in babies with the condition? Of course, the real point is to . . . . Continue Reading »

I got into some trouble a few weeks ago when I criticized Game of Thrones for its very explicit scene of a brother and sister engaging in sexual intercourse.  I said it was part of the coup de culture rocking the West, for which, I was called a prude, told I didn’t understand the plot, . . . . Continue Reading »