Wesley J. Smith

I have a cover story on the current advances of assisted suicide in the USA in the current National Review . The discuss the “Myth” of Oregon’s supposedly problem free experiment with assisted suicide, the recent legalization of assisted suicide in Washington and Montana, and a . . . . Continue Reading »

Secondhand Smokette weighs into the HBO Jack Kevorkian puff biopic today. How do I know it’s puff when I haven’t seen it?  It is based on the unpublished book of the same name by Kevorkian acolyte Neal Nichols, who is so enamored of his subject he once allowed K to inject him with . . . . Continue Reading »

I was asked by the National Review to write a story for the magazine on the recent advances made by the assisted suicide movement.  It is the cover story.  From the article:The assisted-suicide movement has come a long way in just a couple of decades. Consider, for example, this recent . . . . Continue Reading »

He talks!—and talks, and talks: I was interviewed for the Derek Gilbert podcast recently about Obamacare, health care rationing, the danger of bioethics to the vulnerable, animal rights, and human exceptionalism.  If anyone is interested, just hit this link.  . . . . Continue Reading »

Rita Marker, head of the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, has an important piece out in the American Thinker revealing the assisted suicide advocates behind the notorious section 1233 end-of-life counseling provision of HB 3200.  And, she reveals that a senate bill . . . . Continue Reading »

The brouhaha over end of life counseling that caused the first of many leaks that have begun to sink the Obamacare boat was written by an assisted suicide advocate Congressman from Oregon named Earl Blumenauer—working in close association, with—surprise, surprise!—the assisted . . . . Continue Reading »

A major official has admitted that this most important public policy proposal was written intentionally so that it could not be understood by voters.  From the story:Hostility...will be intensified by a startling intervention by Karel de Gucht,...who suggested that the [bill] was designed so . . . . Continue Reading »

The September Scientific American has an interesting article about one of the things that marks human beings as exceptional—our mental abilities  to think and conceive uniquely from all other animals, which the writer calls the “mind.”Since this is Scientific American, the . . . . Continue Reading »

Well, this is both flattering and telling. A questioner at an online town hall brought up a point I have made about Obamacare to Indiana “Blue Dog” Congressman Baron Hill. From the transcript:Q: Congressman Hill, do you agree with Wesley J. Smith, author of “Culture of Death: The . . . . Continue Reading »

I was unaware of this case, but it falls squarely into the debate about Obamacare. A cerebral palsy patient on Medicaid will have to fight in court to receive the level of care prescribed by her physician.  From Jeff Emanuel’s blog entry at CBS.Com:In 2007, citing a disagreement with . . . . Continue Reading »