Children Need Meat

by Wesley J. Smith

A new study shows that it is harmful to withhold meat from young children. Tell that to PETA. Never mind. They won’t . . . . Continue Reading »

22 Feb 2005 0

St. Louis Business Journal Obfuscates the Language of Biotech

by Wesley J. Smith

One would expect the St. Louis Business Journal to publish an editorial supporting Big Biotech’s desire to promote human cloning as a potential gargantuan profit-making technology in the fields of science and medicine. The editors are certainly entitled to their opinion. But what is so . . . . Continue Reading »

21 Feb 2005 0

UN Committee Recommends Banning Human Cloning

by Wesley J. Smith

A UN special committee has recommended that the General Assembly of the United Nations pass a “declaration on human cloning by which Member States would be called on to prohibit all forms of human cloning inasmuch as they are incompatible with human dignity and the protection of human . . . . Continue Reading »

21 Feb 2005 0

Debating Assisted Suicide

by Wesley J. Smith

The San Francisco Chronicle asked me to debate California Assemblywoman Patty Berg on her bill to legalize assisted suicide in this state. Here is the published version of our . . . . Continue Reading »

20 Feb 2005 0

Proposition 71 Goes Oink, Oink, Oink

by Wesley J. Smith

Proposition 71 perpetrated one of the great corporate welfare scams of recent times. As a consequence, California, which is so broke its emergency rooms are closing and its senior citizen services are being cut, is going to BORROW $3 billion over ten years (not including interest) to pay fat cat . . . . Continue Reading »

18 Feb 2005 0

Minnesota Now Has Legislation to Clone and Gestate

by 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 »

17 Feb 2005 0

PETA is After Your Children

by Wesley J. Smith

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 »

17 Feb 2005 0

Ian Wilmut Slides Down Cloning’s Slippery Slope

by Wesley J. Smith

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 »

16 Feb 2005 0

Stealth Cloning in Washington State

by Wesley J. Smith

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

15 Feb 2005 0

Missouri Takes First Step to Ban Human Cloning

by Wesley J. Smith

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 »

15 Feb 2005 0