Wesley J. Smith

Rita Marker, the head of the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide was my mentor, after dragging me kicking and screaming getting into this line of work. Having read her wonderful Deadly Compassion, I was shocked to my shoes, and offered to give ten percent of my time to the . . . . Continue Reading »

Disability rights groups and others have met with the AMA in an attempt to prevent “Ashley’s Treatment” from becoming an acceptable practice in cases of children with profound disabilities. This is an important issue. Before another child is given what would normally be considered . . . . Continue Reading »

A baby has been born at one day less than 22 weeks gestation, has survived, and is doing well. This birth may have significant ramifications for abortion law because it reduces the time of viability to just over half a normal gestation period. It may impact futile care theory and the occasional . . . . Continue Reading »

Scientists keep looking for ways to obtain ES cells without destroying embryos. One potential source that some are now discussing is from the process known as parthenogenesis. This process stimulates an egg (which has 46 chromosomes before losing half during fertilization) to divide for a . . . . Continue Reading »

PETA has had trouble lately because its true colors have been showing. For example, this little story: Heather Mills, Paul McCartney’s estranged wife, has apparently been cut off by PETA from participating in its work because Paul McCartney’s family wants no part of her. McCartney is in . . . . Continue Reading »

I have just learned that my Brave New Bioethics podcast has gone on the air in the nationally syndicated radio program Al Kresta in the Afternoon. (Kresta is also on satellite radio and streams live on the Internet.) This is terrific news. In doing the commentaries, I had hoped to reach people who . . . . Continue Reading »

India has discovered grisly evidence of what happens when eugenics consciousness takes hold. In this case (as in China), it is a belief that boys are better than girls. As a consequence, female infanticide and abortion based on sex is rampant in India. Now, a mass grave of murdered girl infants and . . . . Continue Reading »

Animal rights activists have tried to shut down the fois gras business in many paces around the world because it allegedly abuses ducks and geese to force feed them, the purpose of which is to fatten up their livers, creating the richness of the fois gras product. Of course, the force feeding is not . . . . Continue Reading »

As I just posted, the UK will permit poor women to be exploited by selling their eggs—all in the name of promoting the great god science, of course. Inconveniently, a study just was just published illustrating the pronounced risks that these poor women will face. As the Telegraph . . . . Continue Reading »

The UK Human Fertility and Embryology Authority, which has become a rubber stamp for Big Biotech, has approved paying women to sell their eggs for use in human cloning research. From the story: “Women who go through the medical procedure to harvest the eggs from their ovaries, which doctors . . . . Continue Reading »