Wesley J. Smith

The Montana Supreme Court  will hear oral arguments Wednesday in the appeal of a trial judge ruling creating  a state constitutional right to assisted suicide.  Assisted suicide is often depicted by advocates here as applying only to the terminally ill.  This is a political . . . . Continue Reading »

Terri Schiavo’s father, Robert Schindler, died last night of apparent heart failure at the age of 71. His health was broken by the ordeal of trying to save his daughter’s life and he never fully recovered from the horror of watching her dehydrate to death.  The family is . . . . Continue Reading »

Terri Schiavo’s father, Robert Schindler, died last night of apparent heart failure at the age of 71. His health was broken by the ordeal of trying to save his daughter’s life and he never fully recovered from the horror of watching her dehydrate to death.  The family is . . . . Continue Reading »

As President Obama’s health care prescription has sunk steadily in the polls, a few of its (and his) supporters are pulling the race card.  The latest example is an African-American Congresswoman named Diane Watson (a radical I remember very well from my days in LA). From the story:They . . . . Continue Reading »

Reading bioethics literature is sometimes a challenging task. Bioethics-ese is replete with buzz words, such as “rich,” “robust,” “fruitful,” etc.  The verbiage often seems self-congratulatory and frequently masks some  hard-edged and very radical . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been cogitating on the hysterical condemnation yesterday by the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities against the “heinous form of intellectual violence” supposedly inflicted against bioethicists such as Ezekiel Emanuel by Obamacare critics.  Here’s the . . . . Continue Reading »

The more people read the House Bill—the prime Obamacare vehicle—the worse it gets. Now, in the name of health reform, all of our tax information will be made available to our health overseers. From the CBS story:Section 431(a) of the bill says that the IRS must divulge taxpayer identity . . . . Continue Reading »

The much vaunted—and now delayed—human trial for Geron’s ESCR product for acute spinal cord injury was stopped because the treatment caused cysts in animals.  From the story:Animals being tested using Geron Corporation’s treatment for spinal cord injury developed cysts . . . . Continue Reading »

The Bioethics Establishment are sure a thin skinned lot.  When my book Culture of Death came out, criticizing entirely mainstream views within the the bioethics movement, you should have heard the screaming. One bioethicist even wrote a review in a major bioethical journal asserting that the . . . . Continue Reading »

The pathetic defense of the NHS, mounted recently here and on the other side of the Pond to try and save Obamacare, continues to collapse.  Today, even more bad news came out about the appalling standards of care in the NHS.  From the story:One million NHS patients have been the victims of . . . . Continue Reading »