Wesley J. Smith

The attackers of animal research take two paths toward attempting to end it—one of which I respect but with which I profoundly disagree—and the other which I neither respect nor accept. The argument that I think is wrong but respect (epitoimzed by Gary Francione), admits that scientific . . . . Continue Reading »

“Hillarycare” crashed and burned in 1993 because it was overly bureaucratic and complicated. She has now gone in the opposite direction—mandatory private coverage. But, I don’t think this policy idea is going to fly, either. When asked how she would force people to buy health . . . . Continue Reading »

The media in Australia and New Zealand are shocked that Philip Nitschke—the Down Under Jack Kevorkian—would help a woman commit suicide who wasn’t terminally ill. What amazes me is that they are seemingly surprised. He’s done it before in the Nancy Crick case, in which he . . . . Continue Reading »

The new eugenics is growing at a horrifying pace. In the UK, a House of Lords, member argued that disabled children should be aborted for their own good. From the story:Seriously disabled children should be considered non-persons and would be better off having been aborted, according to a Peer . . . . Continue Reading »

The Brits like to brag that their approach to cloning is the most enlightened, that is, it allows new biotechnologies to proceed, but only under “strict” regulations. Except, I have yet to see any meaningful restrictions or strict regulations actually enacted or enforced. But it’s . . . . Continue Reading »

Things have been getting a little too heavy around here lately. That’s when I turn to Pearl’s Before . . . . Continue Reading »

James asks:Wesley, What’s your take on the Lauren Richardson case in Delaware? Can you get involved to protect the life of this young woman?Lauren Richardson, for those who may not know, is a young woman diagnosed to be persistently unconscious whose parents are fighting in court over who . . . . Continue Reading »

A man’s jaw was refashioned using adult stem cells from his own fat. From the story: Scientists in Finland said they had replaced a 65-year-old patient’s upper jaw with a bone transplant cultivated from stem cells isolated from his own fatty tissue and grown inside his abdomen...Using a . . . . Continue Reading »

A bill in Mississippi would make it illegal to serve obese patrons. When I first read this, words escaped me, and that is rare. Then I thought: Hey, send a copy to the UK. They love surrealistic nonsense like this. Then, I thought: This is too fat a target. So I went to the Mississippi Legislature . . . . Continue Reading »

This is unbelievable: The NHS is seriously considering paying 15,000 Pounds (about $32,000) to surrogate mothers to gestate babies for infertile couples. This, from the same NHS that rations care to the elderly. From the story:Surrogate mothers could be given up to £15,000 of Health Service . . . . Continue Reading »