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
Philip—let disturbed teens have access to suicide pills—Nitschke constantly reveals the death cult obsession that permeates the suicide/euthanasia movement. In the current episode, he warns his cult followers that helium as a death agent may no longer be undetectable . . . . Continue Reading »
I just received private word that the New Hampshire Legislature rejected assisted suicide 242-113. Excellent. Let’s keep holding the line as we push back with medical non cooperation in Washington, Montana, and Oregon. The battle . . . . Continue Reading »
Union members will apparently be excused from paying the tax on Cadillac policies that all other such policy holders will pay. From the story : Unions tentatively struck a deal Tuesday to exempt collectively bargained healthcare plans from a tax on high-cost plans expected to be used to help . . . . Continue Reading »
Have you ever seen such a botched and corrupt process? Rather than focus reform on what needs fixing—access to insurance for the hard to cover—President Obama and his Congressional court jesters tried to remake the entire health care system. But the bill was based on expediency . . . . Continue Reading »
Investor’s Business Daily opines that Proposition 71 has been a failure. From its editorial:California’s Proposition 71 was intended to create a $3 billion West Coast counterpart to the National Institutes of Health, empowered to go where the NIH could not either because of . . . . Continue Reading »
As a lawyer, I am increasingly alarmed by how the emotional narrative subsumes what should be hard law and fixed principle. Our example today: A judge ruled that the killer of George Tiller—he is not yet adjudged a murderer, but admits the shooting—shall be allowed to defend . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s about “the science,” global warming non-deniers tell us repeatedly about the supposed crisis. But you know it is really about “the politics” when they bring out “the children” to sell . . . . Continue Reading »
My new book, A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement is at the printer and will be available in early February (with a good discount at Amazon), a few weeks later than expected, but what else is new in publishing? This is the final cover.I admit to being . . . . Continue Reading »
Final Exit Network Activist Pleads Guilty to Assisted Suicide of Mentally Ill Woman
From First ThoughtsThe pretense that the minions who participate in the Final Exit Network are mere counselors—rather than mobile assisted suicide clinics—was shattered in Phoenix when one facilitator pleaded guilty to assisting the suicide of a mentally ill woman. From the story:Readers may remember . . . . Continue Reading »
Pathetic. Now, as if conjured from that great sci fi flick Westworld, comes the sex robot. From the story:Mr Hines said: “She can’t vacuum, she can’t cook but she can do almost anything else if you know what I mean. “She’s a companion. She has a personality. She . . . . Continue Reading »
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