Wesley J. Smith

What is left of the NHS in the UK is continuing its awful meltdown. Now, the bureaucrats in charge intend radical surgery. From the story: Scores of hospital departments such as maternity units and cancer clinics will be closed or merged across the country under plans for a radical shake-up of the . . . . Continue Reading »

Why is assisted suicide always treated as if life were lived in a vacuum? Case in point: The suicide statistics in Washington are, according to a newspaper report “terrifying,” and yet, many newspapers editorially support legalizing assisted suicide—which at the very least sends a . . . . Continue Reading »

A hate crime against a plant! Why Garfield was banned in . . . . Continue Reading »

When the creators of Proposition 71 spent tens of millions buying a constitutional amendment in California to permit human cloning research, they promised CURES! CURES! CURES! And what are people spending hundreds of millions of dollars of borrowed money on? EXPENSIVE FANCY BUILDINGS! EXPENSIVE . . . . Continue Reading »

I just did an entry on a new Texas futile care lawsuit involving a girl named Sabrina Murray who was apparently threatened with a futile care termination by a Houston hospital, resulting now in litigation. But I had to reserve this entry for a quote from the author of the futile care law, Garnet . . . . Continue Reading »

Texas is ground zero for Futile Care Theory because of its pernicious law that permits ethics committees to refuse wanted life-sustaining treatment over patient/family objections. Readers of SHS will recall that when such a decision is rendered, families have a mere 10 days to find alternative care, . . . . Continue Reading »

I found a linkable cite for the Swiss ethics committee report on the “dignity” of plants. So, I thought I’d put a few pithy quotes up that have not appeared in my discussion here at SHS about the study or in my Weekly Standard piece.Sometimes materialistic Darwinists will state . . . . Continue Reading »

My Weekly Standard piece, “The Silent Scream of the Asparagus,” on plant “dignity” piece is getting a lot of attention. For those in the Cincinnati area who may care to listen, I will be doing the Bill Cunningham Show on WLW (AM 700) at 9:15 Pacific . . . . Continue Reading »

For anyone up this early and/or who cares, my interview on America’s Newsroom on FNC about “plant rights” has been moved up ten minutes. I am mainlining coffee as I prepare—a plant product I might add—that not even the most utilitarian bioethicist would begrudge . . . . Continue Reading »

There is hope everywhere for people with spinal cord injury. We have dealt with adult stem cells and spinal cord injury in print and here at SHS several times previously. But this is very interesting. A paralyzed woman who broke her neck in a trampoline accident has been retrained to walk. From the . . . . Continue Reading »