Wesley J. Smith

If PP wants to secure its access to state money, it merely needs to bifurcate its abortionizing (to coin a term) from health care services such as pregnancy testing and STD screening, etc.  But it won’t, so some states are trying to exclude PP from Medicaid payments. on the theory . . . . Continue Reading »

Consciousness.  True self-aware consciousness: It is one of the exceptional attributes of human nature, present in all of us barring immaturity or injury.  And scientists still can’t figure out what it is all about.An interesting study has recently found that even the areas of the . . . . Continue Reading »

Declining rates of circumcision could cost society big time when the boy babies become men and risk STDs from engaging in risky activities.  From the LA Times story:Declining rates of circumcision among infants will translate into billions of dollars of unnecessary medical costs in the U.S. as . . . . Continue Reading »

Tony Nicklinson, the totally paralyzed man in the UK who lost his court quest to be legally euthanized, has died of pneumonia. From the Yahoo News story:A man left paralysed but fully conscious and aware of his predicament died Wednesday, days after losing a legal bid to end his life of “pure . . . . Continue Reading »

Critics of global warming hysteria have noted that the movement often appears to have a religious feel.  But now, a Guardian columnist makes the approach explicit.  From, “If We Are to Cope With Climate Change We Need a New Moral Order,” by Andrew Brown:It’s . . . . Continue Reading »

Texas has an awful futile care law. It permits hospital bioethics committees to impose members/doctors’ values that a patient’s life is not worth living based on quality of life.  A story just out shows the injustice of the process—a terrible law about which I write here in . . . . Continue Reading »

I don’t like much about Obamacare. But most urgently, I oppose its imposition of anti-American centralized control—in the sense that it is the antithesis of the Founders’ governing philosophy—and hopeless complexity over a huge sector of the American economy, as much . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh, good grief. Can you be more ignorant than to claim that “legitimately” raped women “rarely” get pregnant?  But that’s what the Republican candidate for U.S. Senator in Missouri, Todd Akin, did in an interview.  After stating that abortion should be . . . . Continue Reading »

Science gained tremendous regard in the last few hundred years because the knowledge thereby gained allowed us to improve the lot of the human race in ways few would have ever conceived in all of previous human history.  But a hubris has crept in—the mad scientist syndrome, if you . . . . Continue Reading »

First, he said that a man should divorce his wife with Alzheimer’s. Now, he says we shouldn’t adopt the needy children of the world.  But he supports orphanages.  Good grief!Update: Reader Ken thinks I done Pat wrong, that he was only saying he understood why men wouldn’t . . . . Continue Reading »