Wesley J. Smith

There is a temporary impasse about abortion funding in the House, with pro life Democrats balking at the current bill because it could have federal money fund abortion.  From the story:House Democrats are at an impasse over whether their remake of the nation’s health care system would . . . . Continue Reading »

Barbara Coombs Lee, head honcho at the assisted suicide advocacy group Compassion and Choices, has written a column in the Huffington Post that lies about me.  She doesn’t mention my name, perhaps because that would permit people to look me up and find out for themselves about whether . . . . Continue Reading »

There is an old saying: You can drag a horse to water but you can’t make him drink.  I think this aphorism is relevant to Obamacare’s prescription that each of us be required legally to buy health insurance—and perhaps even face jail—for refusing to do so and pay the . . . . Continue Reading »

Now, they’ve gone too far! Two global warming hysterics have argued that owning a dog is a threat to the planet. From a column in the New Scientist:Should owning a great dane make you as much of an eco-outcast as an SUV driver? Yes it should, say Robert and Brenda Vale, two architects who . . . . Continue Reading »

Some of my critics claim that I am wrong to tie what happens in the UK to Obamacare.  They are wrong.  Obamacare envisions instituting centralized cost/benefit/best practices boards that would set the standards of care, what is covered and what not, and eventually who is covered and who . . . . Continue Reading »

A blog article over at the Hastings Center opposes legislation that “scripts” what doctors must say during medical counseling. From the column by Howard Minkoff and Mary Faith Marshall, “Government-Scripted Consent: When Medical Ethics and Law Collide” . . . . Continue Reading »

Well that didn’t take long. When the Law Lords ordered the head prosecutor to create a public document stating which assisted suicides wouldn’t be prosecuted, he declared open season on the dying, frail elderly, and people with disabilities by permitting family members to assist their . . . . Continue Reading »

If you want to get to the root of just about every problem we face in America today, just look to the “experts,” whose advice did much to get us here.  Despite this, our bad case of “expertitis” shows no signs of abating.  How else explain the drive to take decision . . . . Continue Reading »

It is all so predictable. Speaker Nancy Pelosi claims she has the total budget over ten years for the House version of Obamacare “down” to $900 billion. (Remember, it is really $900 billion for seven years since the law wouldn’t go into effect until 2013).  From the . . . . Continue Reading »

A few months ago, it seemed that a big step had been taken in the development of an HIV/AIDS vaccine. Now it turns out it may not be such a big deal, after all. From the story:A deeper analysis of the results of an HIV vaccine tested in Thailand suggests that the vaccine may not have been as . . . . Continue Reading »