Wesley J. Smith

Cesarean sections will soon be treated as a lifestyle right in the UK, rather than a surgical procedure properly restricted to women who demonstrate a therapeutic need.  And, it will not only be “on demand” for those women who don’t wish to experience the travail of . . . . Continue Reading »

We live in such an odd and hypocritical age.  Republican candidate Herman Cain got in trouble with those who matter because one of his internet ads showed a campaign worker smoking. Horrors! Children might see the ad and pick up a cigarette! Doesn’t Cain know smoking causes . . . . Continue Reading »

New Jersey nurses won a temporary restraining order against being forced to participate in abortion.  From the AP story:A New Jersey hospital says it will temporarily stop requiring nurses to  assist in performing abortions if they object on religious grounds. A group of nurses filed suit . . . . Continue Reading »

Hwang Woo suk, the Korean fraudster, faked human cloning and was published in Science, which only reluctantly moved to retract, perhaps because the editors wanted it to be true. (Amazingly, a court just ruled that Hwang was wrongly fired after his fraud!) And now another science charlatan has been . . . . Continue Reading »

The European Union’s right to “family life” is being used for potentially pernicious purposes.  For example, as we discussed several months ago, the European Court of Human Rights has taken a case that will decide whether the right includes to make a family member dead . . . . Continue Reading »

Readers of SHS may recall the indictment of Ted Goodwin and other Final Exit Network activists, accused of assisting the suicide of a man in remission from cancer who was distraught at his disfiguring surgery.  The defendants challenged the indictment, denied by the Georgia Court of . . . . Continue Reading »

Next week, Mississippi voters will decide whether to convey legal personhood on human beings from inception of the embryo after the completion of fertilization.  From the NPR story:Next week Mississippi voters will decide whether to pass a constitutional amendment that redefines a person. Under . . . . Continue Reading »

The day I changed the name of this blog away from Secondhand . . . . Continue Reading »

President Obama has signed an executive order intended to promote sufficient supplies of neccessary, but unprofitable, medications—such as some chemotherapy drugs.  That’s good.  But from what I could read, the order does not get to the bottom-line cause of the problem. . . . . Continue Reading »

Since the cruel dehydration death of Terri Schiavo in 2005, her family has been very active—through the foundation they created, now called the Terri Schindler Schiavo Life and Hope Network—speaking up and advocating for the equal moral worth of people with profound cognitive . . . . Continue Reading »