Wesley J. Smith

The assisted suicide group Dignitas has opened it’s killing house next to a brothel. From the story: The Swiss assisted suicide group Dignitas, which was evicted from itsflat in Zurich after complaints about bodies in the lift, has opened whatneighbours have labelled a ‘death . . . . Continue Reading »

Brave New Britain just keeps getting Braver and Newer: Now there is a serious discussion of putting the DNA of children into a database because they might become future criminals. From the story: Primary school children should be eligible for the DNA database if they exhibit behaviour indicating . . . . Continue Reading »

Now this is a particularly interesting illustration of the discrimination that the assisted suicide movement would imbed into the law. A man was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to five years in jail for assisting the suicide of his girlfriend. From the story:A man who gave a . . . . Continue Reading »

All I can say is, “Oh, bru—u—ther:” Animal rights activists are claiming that surrounding an elephant named Tai with a huge soap bubble—as an art project—would be “be thoroughly demeaning to Tai.” This comment from Mark Bekoff from the University of . . . . Continue Reading »

PETA has always used nudity, for example of Alicia Silverstone, to attract young people—read boys and men—to the cause. But now it has the services of a hard core porn “actress” pushing synthetic leather called “pleather,” with the clear allusion to . . . . Continue Reading »

When voters swallowed the Proposition 71 snake oil and went billions into debt in a state already drowning in red ink to chase the rainbow of human cloning, they had no idea that the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine would find itself in continual turmoil. The latest is a threat by the . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been focusing recently on S 1810, the Kennedy/Brownback Bill, could result in fewer eugenic abortions, or babies refused life-sustaining treatment—with more to come. The related issue of newborn genetic screening was taken up recently by the President’s Council on Bioethics, and . . . . Continue Reading »

Here’s just another indication of the potential power of ethically derived stem cells to alleviate human suffering. In rat studies, the stem cells improved the creation of adult stem cells and improved inflammation in aged animals. From the study:The results demonstrate that a single . . . . Continue Reading »

Jack Kevorkian is running for Congress. From the story: Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian is planning to run for Congress in Michigan. Kevorkian is on parole since being released from prison last year.He tells The Oakland Press newspaper that he plans to run without party affiliation for the . . . . Continue Reading »

Well, all of the patents over ESCR held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation have been upheld by the Patent Office. From the story: The rulings mean the foundation will continue to control primaryintellectual property rights to embryonic stem cell research in the United States. If that . . . . Continue Reading »