Wesley J. Smith

Apparently assisted suicide is becoming a big topic in Sweden, and so I have been asked by Radio UPF, out of the University of Lund, to speak on the issue of “suicide tourism.” They stated that opinions like mine aren’t heard all that often, and so they asked for some of my time. I . . . . Continue Reading »

I am very pleased that people literally from all over the world are coming to SHS. The new counter lists 94 countries in less than a week. The latest visitor was from the Palestinian Territories. As-salaam . . . . Continue Reading »

The Discovery Institute’s embryonic Center for Human Rights and Bioethics—of which I am a part—is very concerned with working to prevent slavery and human trafficking. That is why we were so pleased that the William Wilberforce Trafficking and Victim’s Protection . . . . Continue Reading »

I have never fully gotten my mind around all of the issues involving reproduction. Women have a near absolute right to abortion—absolute in some places—while at the same time, to ensure that people who want babies can have them, we almost literally move mountains. For example: Using IVF, . . . . Continue Reading »

This link will take you to part three of my interview on Walden’s Pond, in which we deal with the radical environmental movement and its deleterious impact on the importance of human exceptionalism and he concomitant increase in nihilism that leads to the culture of death. I’m trying . . . . Continue Reading »

In all fairness, I am not sure that this is the solely the result of socialized medicine—an epidemic would put pressure on any health care system—although I think it is a contributing factor: Apparently the UK is ill prepared for a viral epidemic that threatens to sweep the country. From . . . . Continue Reading »

It is interesting how some things never change. In the 1990s, Jack Kevorkian’s death circus lit a wildfire of debate over assisted suicide, with the default position being that since “terminally ill” people are going to commit suicide because the suffering is sometimes so . . . . Continue Reading »

New editions of my regular podcast, “What It Means to be Human,” come out each Tuesday. I tend to wait for a slow news day before linking them here, and with all the assisted suicides going on, and televised depictions thereof, not to mention a judge ludicrously turning the advocacy . . . . Continue Reading »

The similarities between the “suicide tourism” ongoing in Switzerland and Jack Kevorkian’s death circus are just too striking to ignore. Both involved depressed people with disabilities, people with terminal illnesses, and some people who are not ill at all traveling from their . . . . Continue Reading »

Whatever happened to fact checking in the media? I recall writing an article against Kevorkian for the New York Times more than ten years ago, and I had to prove every i-dot and t-cross to the editor—it was the editorial equivalent of a colonoscopy. (“Depressed? Don’t Go See Dr. . . . . Continue Reading »