Wesley J. Smith

Honestly calling euthanasia, “euthanasia,” reveals that most Americans oppose legalization.  From the story:A new Angus Reid poll find that 42 percent of American adults are in favor of making euthanasia legal in the United States, although 52 percent feel legalizing induced death . . . . Continue Reading »

I have said it until I am blue in the face and I will continue saying it: Once a society decides that killing is an acceptable answer to human suffering, that which is deemed “acceptable suffering” will continue to expand until just about any category of suicidal person will eventually . . . . Continue Reading »

In the current edition of my podcast What It Means to be Human, I discuss Martin Amis’s call for “suicide booths on every corner,” and note the tragic self loathing caused by a terror of losing his talent to old age that seems to have inspired his call for a radical euthanasia . . . . Continue Reading »

Senator Jim Inhofe’s (R-OK) family builds Al Gore his fifth house in Washington . . . . Continue Reading »

To The Source asked me to expand my critique of the article in Bioethics urging that the field drop its (very tenuous) embrace of human dignity.  I was happy to do so, never wanting to miss an opportunity to defend human exceptionalism.  Here is the conclusion.  From my piece:But . . . . Continue Reading »

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A Russian journalist set off a firestorm in calling for infanticide of developmentally disabled babies, using extremely crass and dehumanizing language. From the story:The author, Aleksandr Nikonov, used the word “debil” — a deeply offensive term in Russian — to characterize . . . . Continue Reading »

Global warming hysteria is collapsing of its own hubris and ideological machinations. Whether or not carbon and other emissions are causing some warming, the movement was always more about politics—the establishment of an international governing technocracy, allowing favored insider to feast . . . . Continue Reading »

For weeks, NOW and other pro choice activists have had the vapors about a pro life ad, in which the mother of football hero Tim Tebow was allegedly to say she is glad she refused a doctor’s advise to have an abortion.  (Other supporters of abortion rights, such as the New York Times . . . . Continue Reading »

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is one of the most radical environmentalist groups around. Not only is its leader Paul Watson anti human—once calling us the “AIDS of the Earth”—but the Shepherds engage in dangerous interference activities aimed at preventing legal . . . . Continue Reading »