Wesley J. Smith

The Oklahoma Legislature has voted unanimously to outlaw all human cloning from the state, and prohibit the importation of the product of human cloning.  From the story : Legislation to ban human cloning easily cleared both the House and the Senate on Friday and heads to the governor. House . . . . Continue Reading »

Oklahoma’s Legislature has voted unanimously to outlaw all human cloning from the state, and prohibit the importation of the product of human cloning. From the story:Legislation to ban human cloning easily cleared both the House and the Senate on Friday and heads to the governor. House Bill . . . . Continue Reading »

Oklahoma’s Legislature has voted unanimously to outlaw all human cloning from the state, and prohibit the importation of the product of human cloning. From the story : Legislation to ban human cloning easily cleared both the House and the Senate on Friday and heads to the governor. House Bill . . . . Continue Reading »

Final Exit Network was strongly suspected of assisting the suicide of Jana Van Voorhis, a severely mentally ill woman in Phoenix. The MSM ignored the story, but it was pushed strongly by New Times, an alternative newspaper. Now, its journalism seems to have helped lead to indictments. From the . . . . Continue Reading »

The date is fast approaching for the Second International Symposium on Assisted Suicide being held at the National Convention Center near Dulles Airport in Virginia on May 29-30. I’ll be there listening and speaking, as will Rita Marker, Alex Schadenberg, Diane Coleman, Margaret Dore, Bobby . . . . Continue Reading »

A few weeks ago I posted about a surprising Pew Poll that reported a dramatic shift toward the pro life position on abortion in the last year. Now the respected Gallup Poll has reported similar findings and discovered that for the first time, a majority of people identify themselves as “pro . . . . Continue Reading »

The scent of health care rationing is in the air. But I have noticed lately that many who support the concept push the agenda by not actually discussing health care rationing. Case in point: Ellen Goodman’s fuzzy recent column, “A Rational Talk About Rationing Care.” Goodman starts . . . . Continue Reading »

I have noticed lately that the political left, which most supports health care rationing (and which, ironically, yells the loudest about HMO care restrictions), argues disingenuously for the agenda through the time-tested tactic of blatant misdirection.Classic example, the fuzzy and reliably emotive . . . . Continue Reading »

I wrote earlier about my worry that two competing bills filed in Texas about the state’s discriminatory futile care law—one to put on a few bows of surface reform, the other to end the right of hospitals to refuse wanted life-sustaining treatment—would end up in gridlock. This . . . . Continue Reading »

Once we have national health insurance, the Death Angel will be given a medal . . . . Continue Reading »