Wesley J. Smith

This is just unbelievable, or better stated given the UK’s history in this field, it is all too believable. At the last minute, the Parliament in the UK added a provision to its omnibus embryo bill—that among other things permits human/animal hybrid cloned embryos to be . . . . Continue Reading »

An article in Our Sunday Visitor, a Catholic publication, warns readers about the dangers of radical environmentalism and animal rights—epitomized by Spain’s pending enactment of the Great Ape Project and Ecuador’s granting rights to “nature” in its new Constitution. . . . . Continue Reading »

Some more observant SHSers may notice that I changed the descriptive blurb of this blog from, “Your 24/7 bioethics seminar,” to “Your 24/7 seminar on bioethics and the importance of being human.” It’s not quite as pithy, but we do deal with issues that extend beyond the . . . . Continue Reading »

I have always said that if you want to see why things seem to be going so wrong in bioethics, just look at the professional literature at the most elite levels, in which a more candid view is presented than may appear in popular media. The bioethics blogs can also be illuminating.Case in point, a . . . . Continue Reading »

Al Martinez, an LA Times columnist (the newspaper that declared “nature rights” in Ecuador to be “intriguing), has caught up with the plants rights movement. In “Getting an Earful From Your Veggies,” he writes: It is not enough to worry about the economy, the political . . . . Continue Reading »

American suicide rates are increasing. From the story:The rate of suicide in the United States is increasing for the first time in a decade, according to a new report from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Injury Research and Policy. The increase in the overall . . . . Continue Reading »

Some organ transplant doctors and ethicists continue their campaign to get the people to accept killing for organs. This time the scene is Australia. A transplant physician now says that brain death can’t be known, nor heart death. The answer, obviously, is to kill for organs. From the story: . . . . Continue Reading »

Animal rights types sometimes get so lost in their hyper romanticism about animals they lose touch with reality. This is happening now in Canada in the aftermath of a man killing a bear in self defense. The bear’s cubs subsequently were euthanized. From the story: A B.C. [British Columbia] man . . . . Continue Reading »

A new law out of the Australian state of Victoria must be discussed. First, it permits abortion through the ninth month, meaning that viable babies are subject to being killed, which is to say it gets close to the land of infanticide. Second, it requires all doctors to either do abortions, or if . . . . Continue Reading »

The grieving parents of the late Daniel James, who became suicidal after becoming paralyzed from an injury sustained playing rugby, and who committed assisted suicide in Switzerland after being taken there by his parents for that purpose, have said that no one can judge their son. From the . . . . Continue Reading »