Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism, and consults for the Patients Rights Council.
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Wesley J. Smith
Romneycare—the moniker for the MA universal coverage law, named after former Governor and potential 2012 Republican presidential Candidate, Mitt Romney—is a mini Obamacare. Indeed, the president’s political handlers have said that the inspiration for the national law was the one . . . . Continue Reading »
Elephant Killed By Go Daddy CEO Feeds Hungry People and Saves Crops—Animal Rights Advocates/Media Furious
From First ThoughtsLast night Secondhand Smokette called for me to come into the den to look at CNN’s Piers Morgan grilling Bob Parsons, the CEO of something called Go Daddy—which is apparently a Web company of some sort, I’m too into my fogeyhood to know. Morgan was clearly upset that Parsons . . . . Continue Reading »
I was in one of those whimsical moods today, so I made a movie. Most of Marsha’s ideological assertions come right out of the animal rights movement, including Richard Ryder, Gary Francione, and PETA. Enjoy. . . . . Continue Reading »
I eavesdropped and filmed a conversation between a bioethicist and a Hippocratic Oath-taking physician. Very revealing. Tune in over at Secondhand Smoke . . . . . Continue Reading »
Back by popular demand. I am so technologically unsavy, I was unable previously to upload this to YouTube. It is there now. So, for your satirical enjoyment, we bring it to you . . . . Continue Reading »
A television news report from Belgium is reporting that an elderly Belgian couple received joint euthanasia because they didn’t want to live without each other. Apparently, the community knew ahead of time, as they even planned their joint funeral. Details, analysis, and the . . . . Continue Reading »
This is what the culture of death looks like. An elderly couple didn’t want to live without each other. So, they received a joint euthanasia. Apparently the local community knew they were planning it, as you will see by playing the embed above. From the “euthanasia . . . . Continue Reading »
I am trying to raise the alarm that current bioethical policies and advocacy promote the objectification of human life and the denigration of human exceptionalism. This episode is in To The Source, where I discuss organ harvesting coupled with euthanasia. From “No Longer Science . . . . Continue Reading »
PETA is anti human, and believes our moral worth is no greater than that of animals—or as Ingrid Newkirk once put it, “A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.” Showing its misanthropic tendencies, PETA is now running a contest to see who will be offered a free vasectomy after they . . . . Continue Reading »
There is a huge controversy roiling PP about whether it should continue to receive federal funding. I say not. But that point aside, it has mounted the usual defense to deflect from its abortion services, sexualizing teenagers in its “sex education” services, and covering up of . . . . Continue Reading »
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