Wesley J. Smith

The immortality project took a body blow today as the AMA came out in opposition to the use of anti-aging hormones. From the story:The American Medical Association says there’s no scientific proof to back up the claims of anti-aging hormones. At their annual meeting in Chicago on Monday, AMA . . . . Continue Reading »

A “wrongful birth” lawsuit has been filed in Oregon in which the child’s parents are suing because a test failed to reveal that their baby has Down, which had they known, would have resulted in abortion.  As I state in my post about this at Secondhand Smoke : This is not the . . . . Continue Reading »

An Oregon couple is suing because a test missed that the child had Down syndrome, which had they known, would have resulted in their child’s abortion.  From the story:In the months before their daughter was born in 2007, Deborah and Ariel Levy worried the baby might have Down syndrome. . . . . Continue Reading »

Tort law is a market based corrective for a market-based system, which is why I am not surprised that President Obama is sending signals that he is willing to accept tort reform as part of a health care reform package. From the story:In closed-door talks, Mr. Obama has been making the case that . . . . Continue Reading »

Apparently the defense of the Final Exit Network defendants is going to be based in free speech. From Derek Humphry’s blog entry urging fellow travelers to pony up for the FEN defendants’ legal defense fund:Inevitably, the cases against the Final Exit Seven will be a landmark in American . . . . Continue Reading »

An increasing number of well off Western couples are renting wombs of poor women in India to gestate their children.  From the story:One leading obstetrician at a Mumbai hospital says she delivers on average one baby to a British couple every 48 hours. One London couple who have taken advantage . . . . Continue Reading »

A horticulturist named George Ball warns against the growing anti humanism of radical environmentalism in a piece in the Wall Street Journal.com .  But rather than focus on the disease—the rejection of human exceptionalism— he gets distracted by the symptoms, e.g., violent tactics . . . . Continue Reading »

A horticulturist named George Ball writes a piece in the Wall Street Journal.Com warning against the radicalization of environmentalism.  From, “Naturalism Has Been Hijacked: Man is Not a Cancer on the Planet:”Now a segment of the Green movement presents a fresh challenge to . . . . Continue Reading »

Compassion and Choices has touted a commentary from a blogger named Cynthia Yokey extolling hospice that, unfortunately, also sends a highly misleading message about acute medical treatment.  From the quote cited in the C and C blog entry:In the acute care system, you continue to receive . . . . Continue Reading »

Rodney Coronado, now in a penitentiary for teaching people how to make an explosive devise with the intent that someone commit a violent crime—and convicted previously of torching an animal research lab—a terrorist who admits he committed other crimes for which he was not caught, is the . . . . Continue Reading »