Wesley J. Smith

The UK rations health care.  In the UK, people who want life-sustaining or extending treatment can be refused under rationing guidelines or physician refusal.  This is the system into which the British Medical Association wants Parliament to enact a “presumed consent” to organ . . . . Continue Reading »

Once, we looked to those who saved suicidal people from dying as the humane and compassionate heroes. After all, they valued the lives of everyone, even those unable to value their own.My how times change. Today, suicide promoters are the heroes.  Case in point: In the Netherlands, despite a . . . . Continue Reading »

I saw a story this morning that created a conflict between my heart and my head. An imminently dying man and his pregnant wife wanted him to be able to hold their baby before passing.  And so, doctors agreed to induce a two-week early birth to make that happen. From the AP Story:Diane . . . . Continue Reading »

Here we go again.  Just because a woman is “reassigned” (what a ridiculous term) as a male and allowed to be considered legally a man, that doesn’t change her biology.  We saw this in the USA when big media made a big deal out of a legal male/biological woman giving birth . . . . Continue Reading »

President Obama promised repeatedly, as he sold the snake oil, “If you like your health insurance, you can keep your health insurance.”  It was mendacious then, and has proved to be utterly mendacious now.Today, if you or your company changes your health plan, you have to abide by . . . . Continue Reading »

Have you noticed that this entire Obama anti Free Exercise of Religion brouhaha is occurring outside of direct representative governance where the people can actually exert some sway?  It is a regulatory requirement that was never part of the original Obamacare bill.  Indeed, there would . . . . Continue Reading »

I have a piece in the Daily Caller describing another in a long series of articles in professional journals arguing that it should be acceptable to kill for organs. From “The Killing-for-Organs Pushers:”If you want to see where our culture may next go off the rails, read  . . . . Continue Reading »

The Obama Administration may have successfully pulled a fast one in its revision of the Free Birth Control Rule.  True, non church religious organizations will not have to pay for a policy that covers birth control.  But employees will be able to go to the same insurer and obtain the . . . . Continue Reading »

The Great Birth Control Rule debacle is coming to an end with the unconstitutionalists in the Obama Administration taking a step back in their drive to “transform” America from a constitutional republic of limited government into an entitlement state.  The brouhaha raised about . . . . Continue Reading »

The Washington Post’s superb pundit, Charles Krauthammer—a secular Jew (I believe)—demolishes President Obama and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in a column decrying the anti constitutional Free Birth Control Rule promulgated under Obamacare as it affects Catholic . . . . Continue Reading »