Wesley J. Smith

Christa Lilly, the Colorado woman diagnosed with persistent vegetative state who woke up and began talking, has relapsed into an unresponsive state. Her mother promises to care for her no matter what. Good. Lilly’s moral worth and intrinsic value as a human being—a sister of all . . . . Continue Reading »

It is incredible that anyone would seriously contemplate legalizing assisted suicide in California, given the elder abuse statistics. In 2003, the California Attorney General’s Bureau of Medi-Cal Fraud and Elder Abuse (BMFEA) and Crime and Violence Prevention Center (CVPC) issued a 50-page . . . . Continue Reading »

This wonderful story demonstrates that being diagnosed PVS does not mean necessarily that one will never wake up, and indeed, that one will not again become interactive. Christa Lilly woke up after 6 years in a diagnosed unconscious condition, and is now telling her story on television! Imagine, if . . . . Continue Reading »

For years, PETA and vegan front groups like Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), have assailed the Atkins diet on the basis of health—when the true cause for their loathing is that it is very high in protein—e.g. meat. No lie has been too low for these vegan fanatics to . . . . Continue Reading »

Yesterday, I posted a brief comment about how PETA is going after Al Gore because he eats meat which purportedly adds to global warming. My point was that global warming isn’t the issue for PETA, but eating animals is, and that the group was merely grandstanding. I forgot to mention further . . . . Continue Reading »

You have to hand it to PETA: It doesn’t miss any chance to promote the animal rights agenda. It is now warning Al Gore that he will be considered a hypocrite if he doesn’t stop eating meat because of the purported contribution cow flatulence and other animal wastes purportedly make to . . . . Continue Reading »

I was honored to be interviewed about my friend Dean Koontz for an article about him in the National Catholic Register. As the article notes, he and I became close after he boosted Culture of Death in his novel One Door Away from Heaven, resulting in at least as many sales for COD as resulted from . . . . Continue Reading »

The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Physicians has gone “neutral” on assisted suicide. And, it has bought into the propaganda that assisted suicide should be called “physician assisted death” (PAD). (Mustn’t let doctors face the fact they would be helping to . . . . Continue Reading »

Please pardon this long post, but there is no way to abridge the discussion and to justice do the important and deeply emotional matters that are considered.Last month, I came across a story in the San Francisco Chronicle that made me think that the assisted suicide death of a woman named Heather . . . . Continue Reading »

Rita Marker, the head of the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, and I have a piece in today’s NRO about how euthanasia proponents engage in post modernistic abuse of lnaguage to further their ideological agenda. (Human cloning advocates use the same disengenuous . . . . Continue Reading »