Wesley J. Smith

In all the screaming about “after-birth abortion,” another radical bioethics paper was published in the journal Bioethics. Rather than the benefit of doubt going to life in cases of diagnosed persistent unconsciousness, the author—a medical resident who received bioethics training . . . . Continue Reading »

Obamacare was only passed because supporters cooked the cost books with false assumptions and accounting maneuvers. Now, the CBO has nearly doubled the estimate of Obamacare’s cost.  From the Washington Examiner story:Today, the CBO released new projections from 2013 extending . . . . Continue Reading »

My head is spinning.  The other day, we discussed the Portland case in which parents successfully sued doctors for wrongful birth, e.g., negligently performing prenatal tests so the parents didn’t abort their daughter child with Down syndrome. Now in Alabama, doctors can be sued . . . . Continue Reading »

If New Mexico wants to legalize assisted suicide, it is free to so do. But it hasn’t, and so a lawsuit will be filed to impose it by judicial fiat, a tactical move that has failed previously in Connecticut, Florida, Alaska, and California, in front of the US Supreme Court, . . . . Continue Reading »

Animal right activists get very exorcised over labs testing various cosmetic products on animals.  But for all their protesting, safety must be proved before marketing, and that generally means using animals in order to prove that the product or its ingredient are fit for human . . . . Continue Reading »

Constitutional rights should not depend on the popularity of the liberty’s support, but it is good to know that solid majorities oppose the authoritarian order by the Obama Administration forcing Catholic  and other objecting organizations to have contraception, . . . . Continue Reading »

There is no place in a society based on human equality and the sanctity of life for lawsuits that ask juries to determine that a baby was wrongfully born.  Such a case just came down in Portland (why am I not surprised), Oregon, where a jury awarded $2.9 million against doctors for failing to . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh brother.  Some big brained “scientists” gave students a beta blocker.  For heart disease?  No, to measure whether the pill could reduce racist attitudes.  From the Daily News story:British researchers found that a common heart disease drug lowers more . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh brother. Every once in a while I like to check in to see what our friends the transhumanists are fantasizing about.  The latest is apparently ”machine rights” and ”machine ethics,” that is the rules that should guide our treatment of machines once they . . . . Continue Reading »

There should be no such thing as a “wrongful life” or “wrongful birth.” But lawsuits are filed from time-to-time seeking damages because a baby was born that the parents would have destroyed in the womb “had they only known.”  For example, a few . . . . Continue Reading »