Wesley J. Smith

More reportage on Spain about to grant great apes “human” type rights—and a little candor from the revolutionaries. I have been saying that the GAP is not the goal but the initial means to attaining the goal, the catapault that first breaches the wall (to use another metaphor), . . . . Continue Reading »

Assemblypersons Patti Berg and Lloyd Levine’s attempt to institute backdoor assisted suicide via “palliative sedation” just hit a big bump in the road: To get it out of a California Senate committee—they had to consent to their pet bill being gutted. From the California . . . . Continue Reading »

We are all apes now, as the Spanish Parliament will soon be granting “human” rights to apes, which is actually to say that human rights are being demoted into mere temporary protections. This story deserves greater coverage, and I intend to do something about that in the next few weeks. . . . . Continue Reading »

The promoters of embryonic stem cell enterprises continue to tout soon to come “breakthroughs” accompanied by supine media coverage and inaccurate statements by “the scientists” who twist and distort scientific definitions to win a political debate. Such spin in the name of . . . . Continue Reading »

The House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed an expansion of the ADA’s protection against workplace discrimination. From the story:In deciding whether a person is disabled, the bill says, courts should generally not consider the effects of “mitigating measures” like . . . . Continue Reading »

Spain is on the verge of fully passing the Great Ape Project. Conceived by Peter Singer and an Italian philosopher, that which was unthinkable in 1993 when it began, has come to pass in a mere fifteen years.Singer’s overarching goal is to obliterate Judeo/Christianity as the reigning . . . . Continue Reading »

The patient in the Winnipeg futile care lawsuit has died while on life support. From the story: In the end, it wasn’t a judge who decided Sam Golubchuk’s fate—time ran out for the 84-year-old and his family who challenged the province’s medical community over who gets to . . . . Continue Reading »

To state the obvious, the USA is losing its common culture and moral values, creating an almost unbridgeable cultural chasm. This, in turn, is disintegrating our social cohesion and leading to the me-me/I-I consciousness of radical individualism.But radical individualism is intended for only one . . . . Continue Reading »

This is a crucial issue involving the assisted suicide debate. We have already seen in Oregon a woman denied coverage for chemotherapy to extend her life, but told that Medicaid will pay for her assisted suicide. Now, that scenario played out in the UK. The melting down NHS denied a chemotherapy . . . . Continue Reading »

A new article in Live Science predicts that adult stem cells may replace silicone breast implants and other contemporary plastic surgery techniques. But first, a crucial admission you once would never see in a science-oriented journal. From the story:Stem cells are cells that have the ability to . . . . Continue Reading »