Wesley J. Smith

A few years ago UCSF tried to clone human life and failed. This story indicates that they are going to give it another try. One of the reasons I posted the link is that the misleading headline aside (eggs are not cloned, cloning creates embryos), the reportage by Chronicle science writer Carl Hall . . . . Continue Reading »

Mary Pilcher Cook is a Kansas State Representative who is about as indomitable and dedicated a legislator as I have ever met. She is honest, committed, and moral. One of her primary causes is to outlaw all human cloning in the great state of Kansas, an issue that has made her a lot of political . . . . Continue Reading »

Now this is interesting: Two senators, both from Pennsylvania and on opposite sides of the therapeutic cloning debate, have co-sponsored legislation to fund research into ways to obtain pluripotent stem cells without creating and destroying embryos. Research pursuing my friend Bill Hurlbut’s . . . . Continue Reading »

The National League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)has voted to opposes assisted suicide and California’s AB 651 that would legalize Oregon-style medicalized killing. Here is the gist of the press release from LULAC announcing its position:“According to Angel G. Luévano, . . . . Continue Reading »

A Court of Appeals has ruled that terminally ill people have the right to access experimental drug treatments that might save their lives. Ruling that dying patients have a basic “right of self-preservation,” the court held that experimental drugs that have passed the first phase of FDA . . . . Continue Reading »

I have blogged on this before, but Eric Cohen has published a full article debunking the notion that the USA is falling behind in ES stem cell research due to President Bush’s funding restrictions. Cohen notes that “more than 85 percent of all the published embryonic-stem-cell research . . . . Continue Reading »

Dianne Feinstein has endorsed AB 651, which would legalize physician-assisted suicide. Reading her letter is a case study in spin and ignorance—exactly what we see from Senator Feinstein in the cloning issue—as I describe fully in Consumer’s Guide to a Brave New World. And now, she . . . . Continue Reading »

This piece of wisdom was sent to me by Steven Drake, one of the movers and shakers in the disability rights movement. I agree with his point about the Andrea Clark “victory” wholeheartedly:“This [my previous post] is definitely a cause for celebration, but I think that is much too . . . . Continue Reading »

I have just heard from Jerri Ward: St. Luke’s has agreed to continue to provide Andrea Clark life sustaining treatment under the auspices of the new doctor. Here is her letter:“I want to let you know that St. Luke’s is doing the right thing in this case now. The physician team met . . . . Continue Reading »

The Missouri initiative to legalize human cloning (phonily called stem cell research), is being opposed by MO Senator James Talent. He should not only oppose it, but use his megaphone as a senator to educate people as to why it should be opposed. That would also help in his reelection campaign where . . . . Continue Reading »