Wesley J. Smith

You will probably have to be a lawyer to enjoy this post: The American political system is fascinating. Our founders established checks and balances and divided sovereignties to prevent any single governmental body or institution from gaining too much power. As a consequence, we experience many . . . . Continue Reading »

Euthanasia activists in Belgium want to expand the law to permit the euthanizing of children and the mentally incompetent. Is anyone . . . . Continue Reading »

This is rather shocking, but somehow, not surprising: According to an advocacy campaign to increase donations being mounted in Scotland by Enable Scotland, which helps developmentally and other disabled people live independent lives, animal charities help receive higher public support than those . . . . Continue Reading »

This is so typical of the euthanasia movement: On one hand, they want doctors allowed to render what is essentially a non medical act—intentionally facilitating suicide—thereby slapping a patina of professional respectability upon the act. Then, on the other hand, after legitimizing . . . . Continue Reading »

Charles Krauthammer is not pro life. He is not, as far as I know, religious. He is an MD and a psychiatrist, who became one of America’s most erudite pundits after becoming paraplegic in a swimming accident years ago. This, according to the media, should give him as much moral authority as . . . . Continue Reading »

The disability rights community is making things hot for the doctors who took out Ashley’s uterus, cut off her breast buds, and subjected her to two years of hormone injections to keep her small. Complaints are being filed, calls for investigations being made. From the AP . . . . Continue Reading »

As expected, the House of Representatives passed the bill to overturn President Bush’s embryonic stem cell funding bill. But the last election only amounted to a gain of 15 additional votes in support of the bill, from the previous high of 238 to a current total of 253. It takes 290 votes to . . . . Continue Reading »

According to this story, Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) will vote against the bill to overturn President Bush’s policy that restricts federal funding of ESCR to cell lines created before 8/9/01. (Typically, the story gets it wrong by claiming that the bill would “pave the way for federal . . . . Continue Reading »

Here is some very good news: Robert Schindler, the father of Terri Schiavo, is improving. Bobby Schindler told me via e-mail: “My father is in his first week of rehabilitation to help return the strength he lost on his right side. I am happy to say that in the short time he has been getting . . . . Continue Reading »

What an irony: On one hand, society is getting pretty libertarian. We are not to judge or shun each other for personal behavior. On the other hand, this injunction does not apply to smokers, who can be castigated from here to Timbuktu. Add in the growing utilitarian emphasis being promoted by . . . . Continue Reading »