Wesley J. Smith

Dollars to donuts that Compassion and Choices brought this story to the reporter: Apparently a pancreatic cancer patient wanted assisted suicide and couldn’t find a doctor to do the deed. (Note how the story reporter, Laura Kate Zaichkin, blatantly employs the usual pro-assisted suicide . . . . Continue Reading »

I recently reported on the case of a baby in Canada, described in the media as dying, whose parents wanted her to be an organ donor. The non heart beating donor protocol was attempted, but the baby didn’t die, and so she was taken off the donor pool as is proper ethics in organ transplant . . . . Continue Reading »

Nicholas Kristof is a famous New York Times columnist who has now weighed in on animal rights. Except he hasn’t. Animal rights is not the same thing as animal welfare, e.g. improving the humane treatment of animals, a good and noble cause. Rather, it is an ideology that equates human and . . . . Continue Reading »

I cannot believe that a science advisor to the POTUS (President of the United States) would seriously suggest that we study creating an artificial volcano that shoots pollution high into the atmosphere in order to combat global warming. But apparently he has. From the story:The president’s new . . . . Continue Reading »

The current Texas Futile Care law is a disgrace, permitting star chamber ethics committees to force patients off of wanted life sustaining treatment, with family given a mere 10 days to find another hospital. This often proves impossible because these are expensive patients for which to care.The . . . . Continue Reading »

A very sad case in Canada is testing the ethics of organ donation at a Canadian hospital. A terminally ill baby was going to be allowed to die naturally and then after cardiac arrest, be an organ donor under the “Non Heart Beating Cadaver Donor Protocol.” But the baby didn’t die as . . . . Continue Reading »

I hate it when celebrity disease victims are used for political purposes—as was the case, I fear, with Big Biotech and Parkinson’s patient Michael J. Fox, who has spent years telling the country falsely that the Bush ESCR funding policy was keeping people like him from being cured, . . . . Continue Reading »

I will say it until I am blue in the face, and then I will keep saying it: Euthanasia guidelines are not really there to be followed and actually protect the vulnerable; they are there to give the illusion of control. Consider: In Belgium, which has Dutch-style euthanasia, an elderly woman wanted . . . . Continue Reading »

I will say it until I am blue in the face, and then I will keep saying it: Euthanasia guidelines are not really there to be followed and actually protect the vulnerable. They are there to give the illusion of control.Consider: In Belgium, which has Dutch-style euthanasia, an elderly woman wanted . . . . Continue Reading »

In my role as a Senior Fellow in Human Rights and Bioethics at the Discovery Institute, I sent a formal comment to the Department of Health and Human Services opposing its intent to revoke the Bush Conscience clause. Instead of revoking it, I urge that it be revised to prevent it from being relied . . . . Continue Reading »