Wesley J. Smith

I am a supporter of “pharming,” that is, making minor genetic alterations in herd animals so that we can obtain valuable substances in their milk (as just one example).  In fact, the cloning of Dolly was intended to promote just such a herd of cloned transgenic sheep.That . . . . Continue Reading »

The Dutch are so proud of their culture of death euthanasia practice, and sooo sensitive about it when people from outside the country tell the truth about how it works there in real life.  Witness the angry letters I have received privately and posted here when I pointed out that the . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh good grief.  The WSJ did an interview with a fiction author/veterinarian who apparently writes deeply empathetic pro animal and feminist fiction—and yet, she treats the very human exceptionalism that bonds her to animals as something to struggle against and overcome.  From an . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the great propaganda coups of the assisted suicide movement was making people believe that the Oregon annual reports about assisted suicide were meaningful or informative. For example: They are based almost solely on self reporting by death doctors, who are about as likely to tell the state . . . . Continue Reading »

The promoters of the “after-birth abortion”—which has been removed from the Journal of Medical Ethics website—have issued a non-apology apology.  They were just misunderstood and misrepresented don’t you know. But that dog won’t hunt so I took to . . . . Continue Reading »

Disability rights activists are indomitable opponents of legalizing assisted suicide and an essential constituency in the diverse and broad-based coalition that opposes the death agenda.  Now, a new DR organization has been founded to fight against the pending Massachusetts initiative that . . . . Continue Reading »

A court has ruled that prison officials may force feed inmates on hunger strikes to prevent their deaths or physical harm. From the AP story:Connecticut prison inmates who go on hunger strikes can be restrained and force-fed to protect them from life-threatening dehydration and malnutrition, the . . . . Continue Reading »

Of course he did: President Obama campaigned for office promising to heal our divisions and build bridges across our cultural divides. But he has intentionally and I believe maliciously—at least in the sense that he wants to poke cultural conservatives in the eye—governed in the most . . . . Continue Reading »

The “after-birth abortion” article continues reverberate, this time in a column by Telegraph columnist Jenny McCartney, who takes issue with the bioethicists’ claim that a newborn and a fetus are equally killable because of their supposed mutual lack of personhood. But . . . . Continue Reading »

The invaluable Bioedge has done it again.  A member of the Dutch royal family was severely injured and brain damaged.  But according to Bioedge, the family had to take him to London for treatment because there are no specialized centers for treating the severely brain damaged people over . . . . Continue Reading »