Wesley J. Smith

This story illustrates how politics has twisted the proper pursuit of regenerative medicine in California. During the last six years or so, the legislature went GA-GA over ESCR and human cloning. It passed a state law explicitly permitting human cloning research. And then, under a $35 million . . . . Continue Reading »

Jack Kevorkian once vowed to starve himself to death rather than do time for his crime. Well, we know how that turned out. Thankfully, he did not try to kill himself, did do eight years, and alas, is now getting $50,000 per speech. Ah, we do love our reprobates...George Exoo, who once ran the . . . . Continue Reading »

Well, it didn’t work out as the pro-cloners wanted. Missouri opponents of human cloning didn’t just roll over when Amendment 2 passed through one of the most deceptive campaigns I have ever seen, abetted by a totally biased and in the tank media. And, as I have written here previously, . . . . Continue Reading »

I have noticed lately that the weekly and bi-weekly newspapers are beginning to do the best reporting, particularly in areas which the MSM ignore (such as this assisted suicide story from Oregon) or to which, they give too short shrift. This story about the terrorist harassment of two UCLA medical . . . . Continue Reading »

This L.A. Times story is relatively shallow in its analysis, but at least it finally highlights the crucial part played by disability rights activists in fighting assisted suicide. From the story:Many disability rights activists contend that the increasingly cost-conscious healthcare system, . . . . Continue Reading »

This PR press release contains two stories instead of one: First, researchers at UCLA apparently morphed embryonic stem cells into neural stem cells, and then, into working neurons. This is only the second time of which I am aware that ES cells were made primarily into the kind of cells that . . . . Continue Reading »

I am honored to call Tony Snow friend. We began our relationship several years ago when he called one day to speak about bioethical issues. Our friendship warmed when I appeared on his syndicated radio program, and has continued, his time permitting, after his appointment as the Press Secretary to . . . . Continue Reading »

Human cloning is very hard to do, apparently. Indeed, despite the race to win a Nobel Prize by creating the first embryonic stem cells from cloned embryos, I only know of one experiment that seems to have resulted in the creation of cloned human embryos that reached the one week stage—and even . . . . Continue Reading »

The terrible story of the physician indicted for allegedly attempting to hasten the death of a disabled dying patient named Ruben Navarro in order to be able to harvest his organs—about which I first wrote a few days ago— is being fleshed out by the local media. As I suspected, the case . . . . Continue Reading »

I have a piece in today’s Rocky Mountain News about the Vick case, entitled, “Vick Charges Speak to Our Humanity.” It is pretty succinct. Here is an excerpt:People are outraged at this scandal, and rightly so. But few are asking why, exactly, we are so upset. For example, do we . . . . Continue Reading »