Wesley J. Smith

This has happened before and it will happen again. A teenager has apparently committed suicide using the death information contained in Derek Humphry’s book Final ExitWho is Derek Humphry? He founded the Hemlock Society—now Compassion and Choices—with his second wife Ann Wickett, . . . . Continue Reading »

In “Help for Navigating Health Care,” San Francisco Chronicle reporter Victoria Colliver interviews a woman named Adrianna Boden, who had a difficult medical experience, and offers tips on being a good medical consumer. From the story:The Empowered Healthcare Community, formed by a . . . . Continue Reading »

President Obama and the Democrats in Congress intend to completely change the health care system of the United States without permitting any meaningful democratic debate. Rather than hold extensive hearings, allow a full airing of one of the most extensive and expensive changes in law in recent . . . . Continue Reading »

The assisted suicide movement is celebrating today as the first two lethal prescriptions have been written by death doctors in Washington State. From the story:Two prescriptions have been filled for life-ending drugs under Washington’s new assisted suicide law, state health officials said . . . . Continue Reading »

The media fell for the latest, ” I can clone a baby ,” publicity stunt yesterday. Now scientists are weighing in sputtering outrage at the thought of trying human reproductive cloning. The only problem is that there is much less to their seeming opposition then meets the eye. As usual, . . . . Continue Reading »

This is potentially huge: Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells, which permit tailor made, patient specific pluripotent stem cell lines to be created ethically without the use of embryos, can now be made without using genetic material. From the story, “Purely Protein Pluripotency,” in The . . . . Continue Reading »

In my last SHS post, I deconstructed the “ethical” objections of “the scientists” to reproductive cloning as really being about safety, not the inherent wrongness of human cloning itself. (Reproductive cloning is actually a misnomer. The act of cloning is somatic cell nuclear . . . . Continue Reading »

I reported on the media falling for the latest, “I can clone a baby,” publicity stunt yesterday. Now “the scientists” are weighing in an sputtering outrage. As usual, their “ethical” opposition to human cloning is much less than it seems.First, it was the cry to . . . . Continue Reading »

Even the comics are becoming anti . . . . Continue Reading »

CBS has a story from the Final Exit Network training manual and it validates my every suspicion that the group is a death cult. From the story: The training manual provides a detailed, behind-the-scenes look at how the network operated. It was written for what the network called “first . . . . Continue Reading »