Wesley J. Smith

The Canadian Hospital and its doctors have much to explain. Stating that a tracheotomy was not in Baby Joseph’s interests, and wishing to pull him off life extending care, they clearly decided that the time had come for Joseph to die. But his parents wanted to take him home with them to die . . . . Continue Reading »

Oncology has an important article out that every media writer should read. Reporters ubiquitously write or speak of euthanasia as having “tight safeguards” against abuse. They don’t work—and I submit they are not supposed to, but rather, are there merely to give the illusion . . . . Continue Reading »

The Phoenix case of the mentally ill woman assisted in suicide by Final Exit Network zealots—what else would you call people who aided a mentally ill person kill themselves with helium instead of calling in suicide prevention?—ended in a not guilty verdict for the distant leader of the . . . . Continue Reading »

There is an interesting article in The New Republic about why the Greens failed politically across the board in the last two years.  From “Blame Game: Has the Green Movement Been a Miserable Flop?”What the hell went wrong? For months now, environmentalists have been asking . . . . Continue Reading »

Good news: Baby Joseph, who doctors and bioethicists at London Health Sciences Centre (Ontario, Canada) wanted to die sooner rather than later, has gone home with his parents.  Readers of SHS will recall that  the hospital both attempted to impose a “futile care” . . . . Continue Reading »

I don’t know if this will pass the Indiana House or whether Gov. Mitch Daniels—he who wants a “truce” on social issues—will sign it, but PP is in some trouble in Indiana.  From the story:Indiana could become the first state to end Medicaid coverage for Planned . . . . Continue Reading »

I had no idea. To be more precise, before I converted to Eastern Orthodoxy, I knew that the Orthodox Church had been harshly suppressed by the communists, but I had no idea that the cruelty of persecution often equaled that inflicted on the early church. … Continue Reading »

I recently did a radio debate with a FEN representative, who told the audience he was confident the Georgia case against his pals would be dismissed.  It didn’t happen.  From the story:A Forsyth County Superior Court judge has denied motions filed by attorneys challenging the . . . . Continue Reading »

I have said that the source of some, perhaps much, of the irrational, seething hatred on the Left for Sarah Palin was her decision to give birth to Trig (who has Down syndrome) and openly love him unconditionally. (This isn’t the same thing as believing she isn’t of presidential . . . . Continue Reading »

The front page headline in the New York Times deflects the point: “Panel to Curb Medicare Costs Meets Bipartisan Opposition.”  An uninformed person might wonder why anyone would be opposed to a panel that would help control costs.Because this “panel” is the Medicare . . . . Continue Reading »