Wesley J. Smith

The days when researchers “only” wanted to derive embryonic stem cells solely from embryos leftover from IVF treatments that were doomed to be discarded anyway, are long gone. Last year, New Jersey legalized human cloning, implantation of cloned embryos into wombs, and gestation through . . . . Continue Reading »

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) knows that most educated people will ultimately reject their radical agenda of eliminating any and all use of animals by people. For example, PETA’s odious “Holocaust on Your Plate Campaign” explicitly connected eating meat . . . . Continue Reading »

Ian Wilmut once said he had no interest in performing human cloning. Now, he’s about to do it. He also once said he opposed reproductive cloning. That position is no longer operable. As I demonstrate in this column, when it comes to human cloning, it is in for an inch, in for a . . . . Continue Reading »

Legislators in Washington are trying to sneak a radical cloning license into the law. Read all about it . . . . Continue Reading »

A senate committee in Missourie voted 7-2 to outlaw all human cloning. This, is a big victory. There has been a full court press against the bill by university, business, media, and most especially, the Stowers Institute, which wants to begin human cloning research in Missouri in . . . . Continue Reading »

I have been pounding on my drum lately about how the cloners have no intention of limiting their research to early embryos in Petri dishes. More proof that I am right can be found in new legislation introduced recently in Washington state. Senate Bill 5594, while purporting to outlaw the . . . . Continue Reading »

The United States Patent Office has denied a patent for the creation of a human/chimpanzee hydbrid animal. This is depicted as something of a defeat for Stuart Newman, the “inventor” of this still unmade chimera. But it is really a victory. Newman is engaged in a very creative effort at . . . . Continue Reading »

On Feb. 4, I testified before a joint Assembly Committee as to why physician-assisted suicide should remain illegal in California. Here is that . . . . Continue Reading »

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ (PETA) purpose for existing is to obliterate any human enterprise that uses animals—no matter how humane the animals are treated, the harm to humans that would be caused, or the economic cost. Toward this end, PETA is currently organizing . . . . Continue Reading »

Here is some potentially good news. Umbilical cord blood stem cells have apparently restored sight and speech to a child with cerebral palsy. Keep in mind this report is a press release and not a peer reviewed journal, and thus caution is the watchword of the day. But this apparent success is a heck . . . . Continue Reading »