Wesley J. Smith

Right is right and wrong is wrong—regardless of legality: Another hospital has opted out of Washington’s assisted suicide law. From the story: Sunnyside Community Hospital will not participate in the state’s new Death With Dignity Act that takes effect next week, a decision likely . . . . Continue Reading »

I wrote earlier today about the arrest of Final Exit Network operatives. I mentioned in that post about the Phoenix case in which a mentally ill woman—it was contended—was assisted in suicide by a group representative. I had reported that matter previously here at SHS, and now search . . . . Continue Reading »

Day after day we are assaulted with the idea, fundamental to the assisted suicide movement, that some lives are not worth living and hence, not worth protecting from suicide. This advocacy, I believe, does not really promote liberty and freedom, but rather, endangers lives—of the elderly, . . . . Continue Reading »

The Final Exit Network is dedicated to assisted suicide. More honestly than some in the euthanasia movement, its members openly acknowledge that the “ultimate civil liberty” should not be limited to the terminally ill.It has long been suspected that some members of the FEN are not . . . . Continue Reading »

I am back in California sinking with my fellow citizens beneath the waves of red ink, jetlagged and scratchy from a persistent chest cold, but gratified that the speaking trip to Ireland and London was (I think), quite successful. Here are a few photos I took for your (hoped for) enjoyment. Thanks . . . . Continue Reading »

I have concluded that too much money is being spent to pay for “scientific studies,” which after all, have to find something to report to earn their keep. This often leads to much confusion. Take for example a new study that looked into the life-course of women, reports that drinking . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been warning for some time that ideological advocacy often masks as objective scientific reporting—both in the media and the journals—allowing political activists to promote various agendas by bootstrapping their views to the widespread respect society has for the scientific . . . . Continue Reading »

It has been a very dispiriting experience to see how things are in the UK. The country’s leadership seems lost in a fog of relativism and intent to destroy many of the cultural attributes of society that made the country great.There is the Brave New Britain, oft written of here, of course. But . . . . Continue Reading »

After three rousing speeches and media appearances with David Prentice in Ireland on cloning and ESCR, I am off today over the Irish Sea to London, where I will speak Monday night in the Parliament Building about assisted suicide. Ahead of the event, I was asked by my sponsors to write a piece for . . . . Continue Reading »

The passage of assisted suicide in Washington is not yet causing a major revamping of the political field. Hawaii’s assisted suicide legislation looks like it isn’t going to make it this year. From the story: The Hawaii Legislature will not take up a proposal to allow assisted suicides . . . . Continue Reading »