Wesley J. Smith

The assisted suicide law called the Oregon Death with Dignity Act—as if dying without poisoning yourself to death isn’t dignified—should instead be called the Oregon Compassion and Choices Assisted Suicide Enabling Act. It turns out that representatives of the assisted suicide . . . . Continue Reading »

The deficiencies in the UK’s health system are varied and many. And still, euthanasia advocates there push for assisted suicide to be legalized. But the Guardian—a left-wing paper—has just reported that the inability of UK patients to gain access good pain control is scandalous. . . . . Continue Reading »

Apparently every aberrant behavior is to be normalized, including sex with animals: First it was Peter Singer claiming that bestiality was just two animals rubbing body parts. Then a movie was released sympathetic to the cause. Now, bioethicist Jacob M. Appel, who has called for allowing assisted . . . . Continue Reading »

Geron recently obtained FDA permission to try using a potentially risky embryonic stem cell derived treatment developed to treat acute spinal cord injury in a human trial to test the safety of the product. But it turns out that a patient’s own adult stem cells appear to already provide the . . . . Continue Reading »

Here’s a bitter irony: A suicide prevention program from the State of Washington has been nationally recognized as an effective resource in saving lives. From the story:A Washington curriculum for suicide prevention has been recognized by a national resource center as a model program.The Help . . . . Continue Reading »

Ever since the animal rights movement came onto my radar, I have urged its leaders to condemn the terrorists within their midst. With the exception of Gary Francione and a few others, the silence among most leadership—particularly from the PETA folk—not to mention the rank and file, has . . . . Continue Reading »

The drive to create moral equivalencies between human beings and animals continues. In California, a bill has been introduced that could treat leaving the scene of an accident involving a car and an animal, the same as a hit and run involving a human being. From AB 1224, authored by Assemblyman Mike . . . . Continue Reading »

It wasn’t bad enough that President Obama stealthily removed a pro science/pro ethics pluripotent Bush stem cell policy, pretending that he was fighting the forces of anti-science. Now Melody Barnes, the president’s domestic policy adviser, has written an article extolling the . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been mouthing off at President Obama’s stem cell actions all week, particularly with regard to his silent evisceration of the “alternative methods” federal funding requirement. Toward that end, I did what I do when steam is coming out my ears; wrote a piece for the Daily . . . . Continue Reading »

I have a piece up on today’s Daily Standard in which I deconstruct President Obama’s stem cell policy. Not only did he revoke former president Bush’s embryonic stem cell funding restrictions, but he also rescinded Bush’s executive order requiring funding of . . . . Continue Reading »