Wesley J. Smith

The often media-scorned pro life movement has made major inroads among the American people, according to the latest Gallup Poll.  Those who identify themselves as “pro life” now outnumber those who see themselves as “pro choice,” with the latter category at its nadir . . . . Continue Reading »

Good grief. A survey of physicians, conducted by Jackson Healthcare, finds that 26% of physicians are not taking new Medicare patients, and 51% refusing new Medicaid patients. And with the Independent Payment Advisory Board and other Obamacare monstrosities, expect things to get worse.One could . . . . Continue Reading »

In the known universe, only human beings yearn for meaning.  Only we search for TRUTH.  Only we think noetically and have mystical experiences. Only we develop philosophies. Only we act on rationally constructed moral values. Only we experience faith. And only we deploy the . . . . Continue Reading »

I don’t believe in surrogacy. But if it is to be allowed, commercial should be made against public policy just as we now do non vital, living organ donation. Alas, there is an ill-advised bill in the New Jersey Legislature to legalize commercial surrogacy.  From the summary of . . . . Continue Reading »

President Obama wants unelected bureaucrats to control health care costs, and indeed, envisions using that goal as an excuse for constructing a bureaucratic state.But why not try capitalism first?  The SF Chronicle has an interesting story about a couple of on-line start ups that help . . . . Continue Reading »

Obama metaphorically tried to burn the right of public religious practice at the stake with his authoritarian Free Birth Control Rule.  Now, the Catholic Church and scores of Catholic Institutions, including Notre Dame University, sueth. From the CNS story:The Archdiocese of New . . . . Continue Reading »

“Victim celebrities,” Ralph Nader calls them, by which he means, people who have been victimized by an abusive act or policy.  They often make the best political activists against it because they bring the principle down to the personal level.But there are also “celebrity . . . . Continue Reading »

Why do some life scientists insist on trying to reduce what we are as human beings to the lowest common biological denominator? Here I was minding my own business, reading the New York Times Book Review to raise my blood pressure, and there it is again: Humans are just pond . . . . Continue Reading »

An Indian surrogate mother has died as a consequence of renting her uterus to a Western woman. From the Daily News and Analysis story:Renting out her womb to a US couple cost Amraiwadi resident Premila Vaghela, 36, her life. Trying to give a child to the couple, she died on Monday . . . . Continue Reading »

In a victory (of sorts) for human rights, and a good piece of diplomacy by the Obama Administration, the persecuted Chinese human rights activist, Chen Gugangchen, has been freed from the national gulag that is the People’s Republic of China. He’s coming to “study” in . . . . Continue Reading »