Wesley J. Smith

Radical bioethics—and that constitutes much of the mainstream, in my view—continues to push for a wider death agenda.  Last week, we discussed an article in the Journal of Bioethics that promoted the propriety of infanticide for even healthy babies if that best served the . . . . Continue Reading »

This wasn’t supposed to happen.  Most of the arctic ice has returned despite the planet melting into a spinning ball of lava.  From a column by meteoroligist Mark Johnson story:Good news from the Arctic. Sea ice extent (area covered by ice) is at a seven-year high. It’s . . . . Continue Reading »

Once a month or so, I edit a newsletter for the Discovery Institute called The Human Exceptionalist.  The point is to present a variety of stories across a broad array of different issues to illustrate the breadth and scope of the challenges to human exceptionalism.  From my introductory . . . . Continue Reading »

Social fascism is rising in California. So is intolerance. And, while we are at it, McCarthyism.  What else can we call the drive in the California Legislature to fire the nonsalaried president of the California Fish and Game Commission (Daniel Richards) because he legally hunted a . . . . Continue Reading »

This is a great story of democratic governance.  Awhile ago, I was informed that Idaho was poised to pass a bill explicitly permitting futile care impositions based on quality of life.  It had passed one house unanimously under the radar as part of a larger bill, much of . . . . Continue Reading »

The article published in the Journal of Medical Ethics called “After Birth Abortion: Why Should the Baby Live?”—which I addressed here a few days ago—is getting a lot of attention in the blogosphere.  So, I decided that I would move past the argument over infanticide, . . . . Continue Reading »

Perhaps it is me, but since the passage of Obamacare and its radical push for cost-containment, I have noticed a big spike in the number of articles trying to convince people to let go when they become seriously ill rather than fight to stay alive.  The latest example is in the Wall Street . . . . Continue Reading »

A bill has been proposed in New Hampshire to protect medical conscience.  You’d think I’d be thrilled, right?  Wrong.  This bill would permit doctors to refuse to save the life of a patient and to discriminate against people based on invidious bigotry.The intent is . . . . Continue Reading »

Francis Cardinal George, the Catholic archbishop of Chicago, has a column up warning about four potential consequences of the Free Birth Control Rule on charitable and non profit institutions associated with the Catholic Church. It makes for sad reading because I don’t think Cardinal . . . . Continue Reading »

The human cloning agenda has stalled because of what I call the “egg dearth.”  Here’s what I mean: Each try at somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) cloning to manufacture a human being (or, member of the species Homo sapiens, if you prefer) requires a human . . . . Continue Reading »