Wesley J. Smith

The utilitarian bioethicists that exert so much control over NHS medical ethics are tightening the noose around the throats of UK patients once again—this time urging that the lives of expensive patients not be extended. From the story:Patients cannot rely on the NHS to save their lives if the . . . . Continue Reading »

This is the story of a marriage and the strength of human love—the kind of a happy tale that might never happen in a euthanasia culture. From the story:The bride wore an ivory gown, the groom wore a black tux with an ascot to cover the trachea tube that assists his breathing. Joan’s son . . . . Continue Reading »

Remember when the above headline was breathlessly expected to come from human cloning and to serve as a repudiation of the Bush stem cell funding policy? This breakthrough, however, came about with induced pluripotent stem cells created from patient skin cells and bone marrow. From the story:Harvard . . . . Continue Reading »

I have become so sick and tired of the baloney that swirls around assisted suicide advocacy like gruel in a blender. Assisted suicide is not really about the rare case when nothing else can be done to alleviate suffering—which has not been the case yet in any legalized jurisdiction from the . . . . Continue Reading »

I think the stories of patients being refused life-extending chemotherapy by Oregon’s Medicaid—but offered assisted suicide instead—will materially impact the I-1000 legalization effort in Washington. First, this kind of heartlessness was predicted by opponents. Second, the old . . . . Continue Reading »

Even pigs seem to understand that meat is not . . . . Continue Reading »

Philip Nitschke is a hero of the assisted suicide movement and a strident advocate for unlimited suicide on demand. (All of you culture of death fans out there, don’t deny it: He’s always a star attraction at euthanasia conventions.) Toward that end, he spends his days creating suicide . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the most courageous and dedicated legislators I have ever met is Mary Pilcher Cook of Kansas. Mary came to my attention several years ago, when as a freshman in the Kansas House, she asked me out to testify in favor of a proposed cloning ban. (Through a lot of grit and persuasion, she got it . . . . Continue Reading »

The guts of the California back door assisted suicide bill, AB 2747, have been stripped from the bill, but it still has objectionable elements. The largest Latino civil rights organization has noticed and—true to its anti-euthanasia/assisted suicide values—has formally come out in . . . . Continue Reading »

I so often write about the deadly serious side of the animal rights movement—the threats to people—that I too often forget to point out some of the more jejune stunts that some advocates pull. Case in point: One animal rights activist wants to change the name of Homo sapiens. From his . . . . Continue Reading »