Wesley J. Smith

Switzerland is Jack Kevorkian as a country, a fact that for some, is becoming an embarrassment. To try and put a modicum of control on the situation—in which non terminally ill Britons as well as people from other countries have flown to Switzerland so they can be brought home in the baggage . . . . Continue Reading »

Worries are being expressed in some quarters that the House health care reform bill would require senior citizens to receive a mandatory “Advance Care Planning Consultation” every five years, the intent being to push seniors into choosing an earlier death as a cost saving measure. But . . . . Continue Reading »

How can doctors support euthanasia in a country in which patients have to wait months, or even years, for urgent testing and medical treatments?  But ideology ignores all.  Apparently the Quebec College of Physicians intend to support a “limited” license for doctors to kill . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been alerted today that a Betsy McCoy claimed on the Fred Thompson radio show that there is a “mandatory counseling” session required for seniors in the House health care reform bill intended to induce them to make health care decisions that would end their lives sooner.  As . . . . Continue Reading »

What will this report do to the ethics of abortion after 30 weeks and to personhood theory as it relates to fetuses?  From the story:The unborn have memories, according to medical researchers who used sound and vibration stimulation, combined with sonography, to reveal that the human fetus . . . . Continue Reading »

As the AMA endorsed the House version of Obama care, which as I pointed out yesterday, would spell the death knell for private health insurance (did the endorsers have time to read the 1000 + page bill?) and institute a utilitarian oversight rationing board over all of our health care—except . . . . Continue Reading »

Most animal rights activists insist that humans receive no benefit from animal research. I make a big point of rebutting this in my upcoming book, which I think convincingly demonstrates that biological science would be materially impeded if animals could no longer be used.  One such area is . . . . Continue Reading »

President Obama has repeatedly assured us that the private health insurance system is safe under his reform plans, but that he wants a public policy to serve as competition to the private plans as a way of keeping costs down. But that is camoflauge. It seems clear that the point of reform is to kill . . . . Continue Reading »

My blog host has asked that I let readers of SHS know about a survey First Things is taking for students of faith.  Happy to do so. If you are interested in taking the survey, hit this link. Thank you.Now, back to our regularly scheduled . . . . Continue Reading »

Health care reform is turning into one of the most radical power grabs our country has ever seen.  First, it is now clear that President Obama wants utilitarian bioethicists of the ilk of Peter Singer to decide what treatment you can have and what you can’t have.  From the story:In . . . . Continue Reading »