Wesley J. Smith

Perhaps embarrassed at becoming Jack Kevorkian as a country, where people fly in from all over the world to participate in “suicide tourism,” the Swiss in the Zurich area will have a chance to rein in their currently out-of-control assisted suicide free for all. From an ERGO (Derek . . . . Continue Reading »

Thousands of women in labor have been forced to give birth outside of safe hospital settings because of hospital overcrowding in the UK.  This seems highly relevant, given the forceful defense mounted of the NHS in the Obamacare debate.  More details over at Secondhand Smoke . . . . . Continue Reading »

Nat Hentoff is a First Amendment absolutist.  In his column today, he comes to the defense of the grass roots who have come out at the town halls to challenge Obamacare, and who are so scorned by the MSM.  From his column:Startlingly — and wholly involuntarily — President Obama . . . . Continue Reading »

I had a jaw-dropping moment the other week when UK officials lept to the NHS’s defense in an attempt to help Obamacare.  Longtime readers of SHS know that I have been detailing the many travesties of health care in the UK—such as patients being forced to wait hours in . . . . Continue Reading »

President Obama’s problem in the health care debate is that he is losing the battle of the sound bite.  What do I mean?  In my experience, for a soundbite to, well, bite, it has to capture and symbolize a more complex and detailed cultural value or perceived truth in a . . . . Continue Reading »

Surrogates is apparently about a world in which people live their lives virtually through robots, sort of a 3-D Second Life.  But then people start to be killed.Hmm. If this movie is any good, it should provoke some interesting conversations about the futility and dangers of the utopian . . . . Continue Reading »

I have long suspected the bioethics movement wishes to have decisional power over public policy.  Now, over at the Hastings Center Website, comes the suggestion that bioethicists should—perhaps (overt advocacy in the field is always couched)—be given more power.  From the . . . . Continue Reading »

Harvard Professor and former Reagan economic adviser Martin Feldstein writes today in the Wall Street Journal that Obamacare is “all about rationing. From the column:The president has emphasized the importance of limiting services to “health care that works.” To identify such care, . . . . Continue Reading »

I have never understood the big fuss over circumcision. Some compare it to female genital mutilation.  But that’s completely wrong because unlike circumcision, it is meant to prevent women from experiencing sexual pleasure and is implemented as a method of control. Circumcision is a . . . . Continue Reading »

Yesterday, I noted that having former Senator Tom Daschle close to the White House’s health care reform effort was no way to assuage wary voters about rationing.  Today, the NYT has a front page story on his influence on the issue both at the White House and in Congress.  Is SHS on . . . . Continue Reading »