Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism, and consults for the Patients Rights Council.
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Wesley J. Smith
The Feds are apparently planning a mass inoculation drive to vaccinate people against the Swine Flu. From the story:Government health officials are mobilizing to launch a massive swine flu vaccination campaign this fall that is unprecedented in its scope — and in the potential for . . . . Continue Reading »
Not Good For Obamacare: Veterans End-of-Life Counseling Booklet May Push Plug Pulling
From First ThoughtsNot a good way to fight the “death panel” charge: A column in the Wall Street Journal discloses that the Obama Administration has quietly reinstated an end of life counseling pamphlet that the Bush Administration had stopped distributing. Apparently it pushes voluntary plug . . . . Continue Reading »
Obamacare: If POTUS Wants to Still Rationing Fears, Stop Consulting with Daschle
From First ThoughtsFormer Senator Tom Daschle was supposed to be our Secretary of Health and Human Services. But then, it turned out he had not paid all his taxes, and so he remains a private citizen, or better stated, an influential private citizen who still has President Obama’s ear on health care. . . . . Continue Reading »
Obamacare: Evidence that “End of Life” Counseling Could Be Directed Toward Death
From First ThoughtsPopular support for Obamacare is collapsing, due in part to fears that the House Bill’s end-of-life counseling provision for Medicare patients could become a means of pushing seniors into voluntary rationing, that is, into refusing life-sustaining treatment toward the end of saving . . . . Continue Reading »
The other day, President Obama referenced the Netherlands as a splendid example of how the “public option,” that is a government plan, worked well with a private system. To The Source contacted me and asked me to reflect on the president’s use of that particular example.First, the . . . . Continue Reading »
For all of the talk about ESCR and therapeutic cloning, in just two short years, induced pluripotent stem cells are already achieving what remains only a theoretical possibility in ethically problematic approaches: Tailor made, disease specific, stem cell lines have been created which are being used . . . . Continue Reading »
President Obama gave humankind a huge promotion the other day, claiming a partnership with God. Hubristic? Yes, and clueless about matters theological. More over at Secondhand Smoke . . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter Singer is the most popular bioethicist around for the “in crowd” of the MSM. The New York Times loves him, often offering him its coveted pages within which to engage in punditry, for example in support of medically mutilating a profound disabled girl so she . . . . Continue Reading »
President Obama said something yesterday that, given the brouhaha over death panels and health care rationing, might not have been prudent. From the story:A reader points out that President Obama’s call with the rabbis today as recorded in Rabbi Jack Moline’s and other . . . . Continue Reading »
The civil libertarian Nat Hentoff is no right winger. He used to write for the Village Voice and has long been one of the country’s most noted civil libertarians, most recently adamantly opposing President George W. Bush’s policies in what used to be called the War on Terror. But . . . . Continue Reading »
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