Wesley J. Smith

For years, we heard that if only the Bush funding restrictions were removed, ESCR would quickly demonstrate its promise of curing the multitudes.  Well, it’s been a year since the Bush executive order was revoked.  But are “the scientists” happy?  Not on a bet. From . . . . Continue Reading »

The Washington Posthas a story about a pilot program to identify donatable organs from the cadvers of people who die in emergency rooms. From the story:Using a $321,000 grant from the Department of Health and Human Services, the emergency departments at the University of Pittsburgh Medical . . . . Continue Reading »

I guess if our government’s Democratic leaders don’t get their way on Obamacare, they would just as soon tear the country apart.  Having lost the political debate over Obamacare, and apparently unable to muster sufficient votes in the House to pass the Senate version of the bill as . . . . Continue Reading »

The real danger to children comes from messages like the one reproduced to the left, since it could scare parents out of providing their children important—indeed, potentially life saving—vaccines. This is particularly true now that the unlikely charge against vaccines as causing autism . . . . Continue Reading »

Please excuse this excursion into areas not of direct concern to matters SHS.  But my pal (and co-author) Ralph Nader deserves significant credit that he is being denied.  Apparently, we have the lowest auto death rate in history.  From the story:The fourth quarter of 2009 was the . . . . Continue Reading »

An Alaskan wolf pack apparently hunted and killed a jogger.  Hunters are now out to kill the pack.  From the story:Alaska authorities have dispatched teams of hunters to the Chignik Lake area of the Alaska Peninsular to hunt down the wolves they have concluded stalked and killed a special . . . . Continue Reading »

I received word last night that Baby Isaiah, the subject of a bitter futile care case in Canada, died in his parent’s arms after they decided the time had come to stop treatment.  They made that decision—not the doctors and not the courts—based on the bad news they received . . . . Continue Reading »

I haven’t been blogging the daily machinations of those trying to pass Obamacare—even after losing the political debate over it.  But Yuval Levin made a pithy comment over at The Corner about this huge mess that is worth noting.  From his post:Democratic leaders should be . . . . Continue Reading »

I am frequently asked in interviews how a radical and misanthropic organization like PETA gets so much money.  The answer is simple. Many average people think the group is about just being nicer to animals, when it is actually about ending all animal domestication.Then there are the shallow . . . . Continue Reading »

Joe Carter has a splendidly detailed history of Dutch euthanasia in the “On the Square” feature here at First Things.  Read it carefully.  It will show how mercy killing, sold to the Dutch as a restricted practice, expanded steadily to where it now includes infanticide and . . . . Continue Reading »