Wesley J. Smith

Live Action strikes again.  A New York PP counselor is told that the client wants to abort a girl.  The PP representative is cooperative, non judgmental, and professionally aloof.  I embedded this example above, because unlike the last video released, it contains the . . . . Continue Reading »

We discussed this legislation earlier, but I think there is more to add. Legislation in New Jersey would legalize commercial gestational carriage, as dehumanizing a term for a woman carrying a baby this side of “human brood mare.” From The Record story:Supporters argue that these . . . . Continue Reading »

Big news on the tomato front: They have more genes than human beings! From the NYT story:The tomato, whose genome has just now been decoded, turns out to be one well-endowed vegetable, possessing 31,760 genes. This rich legacy, possibly a reflection of the disaster that killed . . . . Continue Reading »

At the height of the great Embryonic Stem Cell Hype, Hwang Woo-suk fraudulently claimed to have created human cloned embryos and derived stem cells therefrom. He paid a price in reputation but not his freedom, despite obtaining research grants under false pretenses. Now, another Korean stem . . . . Continue Reading »

Good science and good ethics go together like bread and butter.  Now, scientists have used cell reprogramming to treat Huntington’s disease—which killed Woodie Guthrie and remains incurable—in rats. From the Michigan Live story:A stem cell treatment investigated for . . . . Continue Reading »

Central Control has released the “National Bioeconomy Blueprint” that outlines how the sector can transform our struggling economy into soaring prosperity, and how the government-business partnership will make that happen. Perhaps, but why do I keep seeing visions of the public . . . . Continue Reading »

There is tremendous pressure being placed on doctors and other medical professionals to eschew their own moral consciences in the provision of medical services—as distinguished from treatments.  Now, in the UK, doctors who refuse to perform gender reassignment surgeries and . . . . Continue Reading »

I am always leery of undercover video “stings,” but I think this one bears noticing.  Live Action is an adamantly anti Planned Parenthood organization headed by Lila Rose, which has exposed PP in the past—such as demonstrating that, contrary to the assertion of the . . . . Continue Reading »

I believe that humans are distinguished from all other known life by differences that are moral in naure, not merely biological.  For example, while our bipedalism has certainly helped us become who we are, it is not what makes us exceptional. After all, penguins are bipedal too.But our moral . . . . Continue Reading »

There is an astonishing intolerance of pro life speech among those who rule in the power structure.  I think of Paster Walter Hoye, arrested in Oakland for merely passing out anti abortion material and conversing with women about not terminating their pregnancies.  But at least we (still) . . . . Continue Reading »