Wesley J. Smith

Religious freedom is supposed to be a touchstone of liberty. But many secularists so disdain faith that they refuse to abide by the principle—or more commonly, attempt to shrink its parameters to a very limited “freedom of worship.” Now, in the aftermath of the . . . . Continue Reading »

Tomorrow is the big day in which we learn whether the U.S. Government now rules rather than governs us.  If Obamacare is upheld, what remains of the old order of limited government will be swept away and a new regime of top-down technocratic rule will become firmly entrenched, a system that . . . . Continue Reading »

Peter Singer is a bigot. Not a racist. Not a sexist. But a bigot, nonetheless.He denies the equal value of the most vulnerable and defenseless human beings, indeed, asserting that so-called human “non persons” have lower value than some animals. And as always occurs . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been fighting euthanasia since 1993. During that time, I have been startled at what resonates emotionally with people about doctor-prescribed/administered death, and those matters which are generally shrugged off as of little concern.  If a sick person wants to die, . . . . Continue Reading »

Infanticide—for which doctors were hanged at Nuremberg—is becoming an increasingly commonplace issue of debate. Indeed, it seems to me that the notion of killing babies is now precisely where abortion was in the 1960s. And we know what happened then.But back to the point at . . . . Continue Reading »

When IVF began, we were told it was only to permit infertile married couples have children. It has since expanded geometrically to become an industry that also includes eugenic options, commercialization of gametes and uteruses, and facilitation of what were once called . . . . Continue Reading »

Liberal columnist E.J. Dionne makes an intriguing suggestion in today’s Washington Post.  If Obamacare is ruled unconstitutional, he suggests, that could allow the widely disdained law to become more popular. From, “Will We Love Healthcare If It Dies?”Maybe now, supporters of . . . . Continue Reading »

A prominent blogger has converted from atheism to Catholicism, raising a few issues about human exceptionalism that we have discussed here. From the CNN Belief story:Leah Libresco, who’d been a prominent atheist blogger for the religion website Patheos, announced on her blog . . . . Continue Reading »

Bioethicist Art Caplan has written a righteous post decrying the “silence” of the world to the outrage of N. Pakistan banning polio vaccination of its children.  From, “Where is Outrage Over Pakistan Polio Vaccine Ban?”:By deciding to hide behind babies as a way to fight . . . . Continue Reading »

Proposition 29 was strikingly similar in concept to Proposition 71, which created the benighted California Institute for Regenerative Medicine in 2004.  Proposition 29 would tax cigarettes. Proposition 71 borrowed money.  Both were designed to use the money thereby obtained to . . . . Continue Reading »