Wesley J. Smith

This is very disturbing. An autistic man has been denied a heart transplant, apparently because of his mental disability.  From the AP story:In a letter, dated June 13, 2011, Dr. Susan Brozena wrote: “I have recommended against transplant given his psychiatric issues, autism, the . . . . Continue Reading »

It has been coming for some time, but the top voices in bioethics—by which I mean those who inhabit the top floors of the ivory tower—are almost all blatant eugenicists.  That sure is from whence the first eugenics came from—and the pattern is repeating itself.  First, . . . . Continue Reading »

Tony Nicklinson, a UK man paralyzed with “locked in syndrome,” has lost his court request to be allowed to commit suicide—which would actually be euthanasia. From the Telegraph story:Under recent guidelines from the Director of Public Prosecutions only family members or close . . . . Continue Reading »

I have noticed that my writing seems to flow in patterns.  Much of that is caused by the flow of news, but I think some of it has to do with certain stories getting my attention, after which I connect dots and become acutely conscious of certain ebbs and flows of advocacy.  . . . . Continue Reading »

The Netherlands opened the doors to euthanasia way back in 1973. Since then, it has fallen off a vertical moral cliff with the killing agenda having spread to the pediatric wards. the mentally ill, and now stalking the elderly “tired of life”—all reported here and in my other . . . . Continue Reading »

I am trying harder to report outcomes involving stories covered here.  Toward that end, a social worker disciplined for giving a colleague an anti-abortion tract has settled her case.  From the Telegraph story:A Christian mental health worker who was sacked over her stance on . . . . Continue Reading »

The question of who should have the final say about when to cease life support—patients/families or doctors/bioethicists (Futile Care Theory)—is among the most important bioethical issues we face today.  But surely, such questions should be approached as a general matter rather . . . . Continue Reading »

The newest edition of the The Human Exceptionalist is out.  And among the stories we cover are the claims that we don’t really have free will.  I touch upon the importance of that issue in my letter of introduction. From the July 31, 2012 Human Exceptionalist:Dear Exceptional . . . . Continue Reading »

I have twice written here about “freedom of worship’s” attack on “freedom of religion,” that is, the attempt to shrink free exercise into a mere right to worship .  President Obama has pushed that theme once again in his speech at a White House dinner celebrating . . . . Continue Reading »

There Obama goes again, reducing “freedom of religion”—more accurately, the “free exercise thereof”—to a puny “freedom of worship, which I have warned against repeatedly, mostly in the context of Obamacare and the “Free Birth Control Rule.”  . . . . Continue Reading »