Wesley J. Smith

Remember Ron Reagan’s nonsense speech about embryonic stem cell research (actually human cloning research) at the 2004 Democratic Convention? Media swooned at the garbage and the hype (e.g., Parkinson’s cures around 2014, “self repair kits” stored in hospitals).  . . . . Continue Reading »

This pro doctor-prescribed death meme is so old and tired: Pain control can lead to a sooner death, hence it is no different than assisted suicide.  And now, in the Canadian attempt to impose assisted suicide by judicial fiat, a pro assisted suicide lawyer cross examined a palliative care . . . . Continue Reading »

I once asked my Discovery Institute colleague, John R. Miller, to tell me his worst experience as George W. Bush’s point man in fighting slavery and human trafficking.  He told me that he once saw children confined in hanging bamboo cages.  Awful.  Just awful.The scourge shows . . . . Continue Reading »

I have written that I suspect the fix is in with regard to the pro assisted suicide lawsuit filed in British Columbia.  But at least the Canadian Government is fighting the good fight.  Marcia Angell, the former editor of the NEJM—and a wildly emotional euthanasia proponent—is . . . . Continue Reading »

I have seen this story reported, but didn’t mention it here until further developments.  But now there might be a Congressional investigation, so the time has come to bring it up.  A company founded to sell carbon credits—what a racket!—is being accused of forcefully . . . . Continue Reading »

I once called euthanasia, “heroin.”  My point was—and is—that once a culture starts mainlining mercy killing, it will always wants more. And now a Dutch euthanasia advocacy groups wants to create mobile euthanasia clinics.  From the CBS story:The main . . . . Continue Reading »

Well, that didn’t take long.  The Olympian has editorialized in favor of the assisted suicide law to allow “euthanasia” beyond assisted suicide for the terminally ill. From a column by a member of the Olympian Board of Contributors:To improve the chances of passage, the . . . . Continue Reading »

The in-the-tank media is huffing and puffing, trying to make something important out of an entirely predictable recommendation by the Royal Society of Canada commission to legalize euthanasia.  But commissions can be created to obtain a specific result, as this one was and did.In . . . . Continue Reading »

What a debacle is our non beloved Obamacare, what an awful mess.  Now, we find that the law does not provide for premium subsidies if the states do not set up insurance exchanges.  From a Wall Street Journal column by Jonathan H. Adler and Michael F. Cannon:  The . . . . Continue Reading »

This site, and most of what I do, involves human exceptionalism, bioethics, and the like.  But I still care about areas about which I formerly focused.  And sometimes, I take metaphorical pen in hand.Pervasive secrecy corrupts the societal purposes of our civil justice system. Today in the . . . . Continue Reading »