Wesley J. Smith

Donald Berwick, the late (as in former) temporary head (via recess appointment) of Medicare—the cowardly Democrats wouldn’t even hold hearings on his nomination because he supports rationing—makes the best case possible for Obamacare in the Washington Post.  But it . . . . Continue Reading »

We hear sometimes from pro abortion types that fetuses are nothing of moral note until they are born—and sometimes not even then, e.g. personhood theory.  We are sometimes told that during prenatal care, only the mothers are patients.  Yet, a story just came out about life saving . . . . Continue Reading »

Patients diagnosed as persistently unconscious may be the most scorned people on earth. I mean, who else could be called a turnip or carrot with impunity?  It is within the context of this “unrepentent bigotry”  that I analyze a hopeful story about increasing efforts to . . . . Continue Reading »

Science writer Ronald Bailey took to the pages of Reason last month to extol egg freezing as a splendid technology to promote female equality. Here’s the meme: Since men can father children even into old age, it is “discriminatory” (bad Darwin!) that women’s biological . . . . Continue Reading »

The right to life is morphing before our very eyes into a right to death.  Witness the recent Canadian judge who ruled, in essence, that there is a right to suicide because it isn’t a crime to kill oneself.  In the UK, in the meanwhile, Tony Nicklinson—whose lawsuit seeking the . . . . Continue Reading »

We are often told that Canada’s single payer health system is the ideal for the USA. I once believed it. No longer. Canada rations care, occasionally by refusing coverage but mostly by loooo—ooo—ooong waits for needed tests and care.  True, the country is trying to improve, . . . . Continue Reading »

Peter Singer, the crass infanticide and “speciesism” promoter is an atheist. Bully for him, and who cares?  But his antipathy toward faith may explain his hostility to, and utter confusion about, religious liberty.Singer has written that Obamacare’s “Free . . . . Continue Reading »

Switzerland, which already permits suicide purveyors to make a lot of money out of suicide tourism, is now bringing self termination into nursing homes and hospitals. From the Swiss Info story:Vaud is set to become the first Swiss canton to introduce a law explicitly regulating assisted suicide. On . . . . Continue Reading »

There are going to be some changes coming around here, soon to be announced. But for now, let me say that I plan to expand somewhat on the nature of our conversation—more of an adding to as opposed to a taking from. For example, there will be a more directed focus on those attributes that . . . . Continue Reading »

We knew this was coming, because the fix was in: The BC Supreme Court Chief Justice has ruled that the law against assisted suicide is unconstitutional.  From the CBC story:In her judgment, Smith speaks directly to the situation faced by Gloria Taylor, a B.C. woman with ALS, also known as Lou . . . . Continue Reading »