Wesley J. Smith

Most contested cases of removing babies or profoundly disabled adults from needed life support have involved those with serious brain injuries or cognitive impairments. But once the idea that dead is better than disabled takes hold, it will soon spread to those with physical disabilities.Now, in the . . . . Continue Reading »

I think yesterday’s election helped the chance that Obamacare would pass in the House, but that, along with the general conservative success throughout the country, distinctly hurts its chances in the Senate. Majority Leader Harry Reid seems to think so too, as top Democrats predict the deed . . . . Continue Reading »

I support necessary medical and scientific experimentation on animals. But I don’t think this experiment is necessary.  From the story:Nasa is to expose squirrel monkeys to daily radiation doses to help them understand the effects of long space trips on humans. It will be Nasa’s . . . . Continue Reading »

I remember being in Rome more than ten years ago and developing a nice camaraderie with the hotel clerk.  As we talked about our respective countries, he told me that he was beside himself, to the point of endangering his health, about what he perceived to be the casual corruption and mendacity . . . . Continue Reading »

As regular readers of SHS know, I worry a lot about the growing trend to instrumentalize human life and use it as a natural resource.  Thus, I have opposed federal funding of ESCR, human cloning, redefining death for organ harvesting purposes, fetal farming, etc.I think there is a real ethical . . . . Continue Reading »

There is a significant constitutional question hanging over the entire Obamacare project: Is it constitutional to require citizens to buy health insurance?  This is no minor question, but Obamacare pushers have generally refused to engage.The Administration has been asked about the matter for . . . . Continue Reading »

Pro lifers have long asserted that the ultrasound could make a profound change in the way people view abortion. Strong support for that view came in a story today of a Texas Planned Parenthood executive changing sides after watching an abortion via ultrasound.  More details over at Secondhand . . . . Continue Reading »

Pushers of Obamacare have a mantra: “Affordable health care.”  But the current plans would tax medical devises such as pace makers, which will increase the cost of care!  From a column at NRO byDeroy Murdock:Obamacare promises to make medicine cheaper by making it costlier. . . . . Continue Reading »

The swine flu shot was reportedly given to some Brooklyn school children without parental consent. From the story:School nurses mistakenly gave the swine flu vaccine to two students who didn’t sign up for it - including a Brooklyn girl with epilepsy who wound up in the hospital. “I . . . . Continue Reading »

Australia’s suicide obsessed Philip Nitschke is bringing his how-to-kill-yourself class to the USA.  I have a piece about his planned San Francisco suicide lecture in today’s San Francisco Chronicle. From the column:Shouldn’t there be limits to assisted-suicide permissiveness? . . . . Continue Reading »