Wesley J. Smith

Obamacare is a debacle. It vests tremendous, unprecedented power into the hands of the executive branch through bureaucratic mandates—such as the anti-Catholic and autocratic free birth control and nearly everything else that can be construed as “reproductive” health mandates. It . . . . Continue Reading »

The Georgia Supreme Court threw out a badly written law that made it a crime, essentially, to advertise to assist suicide but not actually do the deed.  Bad law led to an unforunate, but I think correct, legal ruling.  But it left Georgia as a wild, wild, West of assisted suicide with no . . . . Continue Reading »

The Journal of Medical Ethics prints many articles that illustrate vividly just where many members of the increasingly radical bioethics movement would take us.  Most recently, it published an article stating that infanticide should be permitted—regardless of the health of . . . . Continue Reading »

Let no one doubt the anti liberty agenda of Obamacare.  In place of traditional American liberty based on the principles of limited government, Obamacarians are erecting a bureaucratic state, complete with centralized control, cronyism, ideological impositions, benefits to favored . . . . Continue Reading »

Good grief!  A Maryland state legislator has filed a bill that would allow surrogate decision makers to “donate” kidneys and liver lobes.  From HB 449:THIS SUBSECTION APPLIES ONLY TO A PATIENT WHO HAS  BEEN CERTIFIED UNDER § 5–606(B) OF THIS SUBTITLE TO BE IN A . . . . Continue Reading »

Competition is good.  It is good in the economy. It is good in politics.  It is good in philosophy.  And it is good in global warming science because it brings a fuller and more complete picture of what may or may not be going on.Global Warming Hysterics tried—and still flail . . . . Continue Reading »

Well, this is a pleasant surprise. Another ruling has come down in the very litigated Stormans v. Selecky case, again from the trial court.This is the case in which a pharmacy refused to dispense the Plan B contraception/abortifacient pill because it violated the owners’ religious beliefs. . . . . Continue Reading »

Cases justifying euthanasia are spreading like wildfire in the Netherlands, to the point that visual impairment can become the primary reason to kill.  The latest report from the Netherlands describes an elderly woman who was euthanized over macular degeneration and other often experienced . . . . Continue Reading »

The latest report from the Netherlands on euthanasia practice includes a case study of a woman killed by her psychiatrist solely due to mental illness, specifically, depression.  From the Regional Committees Annual Report 2010:More than four years before the patient died she was diagnosed with . . . . Continue Reading »

I have received some comment from correspondents claiming to be Dutch and reporters, contesting my article yesterday that describes some of the Dutch euthanasia horrors.  They don’t claim I am wrong that about 1% of Dutch deaths are “termination without request or . . . . Continue Reading »