Wesley J. Smith

This gets so old: The media keep reporting that the Feds are seeking to invalidate Oregon’s assisted suicide law. No, they are not, as I explained here years ago. Here’s another bit of wrong reporting: I just heard an ABC radio news report in which the correspondent asserted that Chief . . . . Continue Reading »

What a debacle Proposition 71 is fast becoming. This article by the Christian bioethicist Nigel Cameron lays only part of it out. California is going billions in debt while our emergency rooms shut down for lack of funds, as we pay fat cat Big Biotech companies and their university collaborators . . . . Continue Reading »

I was asked by the Weekly Standard to review the latest report of the President’s Council on Bioethics, Taking Care: Ethical Caregiving in Our Aging Society. This will be the last released by the Council under the leadership of Kass, and it is outstanding. The report is a strong defense of the . . . . Continue Reading »

Jack Kevorkian has stated publicly that if he is released from prison, he will campaign for the legalization of assisted suicide. He would be the perfect poster boy for that agenda. Most of the people he helped kill were not terminally ill. He once stated he couldn’t remember their names. And . . . . Continue Reading »

I was interviewed by Kathllen Dunn on Wisconsin Public Radio last Thursday (9/29) for an hour on Consumer’s Guide to a Brave New World. It was a very positive experience with some interesting questions from listeners. If you have an hour, take a listen. I think you will find it worth your . . . . Continue Reading »

In a move that is utterly unsurprising, the Dutch are going to expand their euthanasia guidelines to permit the killing of infants. What a sick joke. Dutch doctors have been killing babies born with disabilities or terminal illnesses for more than a decade with nothing meaningful done about . . . . Continue Reading »

I have expanded on some themes I have been commenting on here recently in the Daily Standard. The article discusses the recent treatment success for paralysis using umbilical cord blood stem cells, the curing of mice with juvenile diabetes with adult spleen cells, and how for all of the wailing and . . . . Continue Reading »

Ah, those assisted suicide ideologues: They are always looking for just the right words and language to obfuscate that their agenda is about suicide and mercy killing. Now, facing defeat of their assisted suicide legalization bill, “Californians for Compassionate Choices,” (see what I . . . . Continue Reading »

Bioedge, which is a great weekly on-line newsletter that summarizes major news stories, professional journal articles, and other reports in bioethics and biotechnology (see link), has reported on a study that finds depression to be a key factor in requests for euthanasia in the Netherlands. The . . . . Continue Reading »

The alleged perpetrators of the grave robbing to drive that guinea pig farm out of business in the UK have been arrested. Good. The time is more than past for international law enforcement to crush animal liberation terrorism once and for all. Note these other “protest” tactics . . . . Continue Reading »