Wesley J. Smith

The picture to the left is of Hiasl the chimp. An Austrian court just refused to declare him a person. This is good news, but animal liberationists who seek his entry into the moral community of humans will keep at it in Austria and elsewhere until they find a court radical enough to presume to . . . . Continue Reading »

The “scientific study” has become the modern-day equivalent to Biblical scripture: They can be made to support whatever result the “studier” desires.Case in point: A just released study by Margarette P. Battin of the University of Utah, claiming that there is no assisted . . . . Continue Reading »

Dignitas, the assisted suicide facilitating organization from Switzerland is extending its tentacles into Germany. Just as the Swiss neighbors of the group’s suicide safe house objected to all of the corpses being carried out, so too now, have Germans:ZURICH (Reuters) - Right-to-die group . . . . Continue Reading »

I am a special consultant to the Center for Bioethics and the Culture. I was recently asked to comment on the UK’s approval of permitting scientists to try and create human/animal cloned embryos, apparently called “cybrids.” It is called “No Brakes.” Here is my . . . . Continue Reading »

Here we go again: Adult stem cells moving forward faster than we could have hoped only a few years ago. This time it is liver disease: Rats were injected with their own bone marrow stem cells helping to repair their damaged livers. From the story in the Telegraph:The liver is known to be one of the . . . . Continue Reading »

A commentary by a woman named Edna Spector published in Berkeley’s Daily Planet urges that the city’s young lead the way to voluntarily making the human race extinct by not having children. Spector writes:Friends! The hour of judgment is at hand for our planet. Doom is knocking on our . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been asked whether I will comment on the Vatican’s directive regarding the application of tube-supplied food and fluids to those with a diagnosis of persistent vegetative state. I will not. That is a sectarian matter about which I am not qualified to comment.That being noted, I believe . . . . Continue Reading »

In Seattle some animal rights activists apparently stole the pet rabbit of children who attend a preschool. The liberated rabbit is no doubt now hungry and fearful of predators since it was probably dumped in the wild and has no experience of living on its own. Meanwhile, the children are sad. From . . . . Continue Reading »

The New York “all the news we see fit to print” Times has a clueless editorial out today about human/animal hybrid cloning. Here are a few tidbits:Stem cell research in the United States has been hobbled for years by severe and misguided restrictions on federal funding. But now a vexing . . . . Continue Reading »

The media can’t get enough of this man’s pontificating, but they don’t look at his history to see that what he says should be taken with a healthy dose of skepticism. For example, Wilmut wrote in his book The Second Creation, that he wanted nothing to do with human cloning. Rather, . . . . Continue Reading »