By Wesley J. Smith Both my parents left this earth under the beneficent care of hospice professionals who kept them comfortable and at peace. My dad died in a Veterans Affairs hospice unit in 1984, when the movement in the USA was relatively new. Mom passed in 2016, in my wife’s and my home, receiving care …
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By Wesley J. Smith The last thing that abortion-rights activists want is an accurate description of what a pregnancy termination destroys. According to embryology textbooks — that’s science — the terminated life is a nascent human being. It used to be that the medical terms for gestating babies such as “embryo” (first eight full weeks of development) or “fetus” (ninth …
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By Wesley J. Smith This is the world of bioethics, the “experts” whom we are supposed to trust to guide public policy on a range of issues, from medical policy to environmental law. We should not listen to a word the mainstreamers have to say — as this article telling us not to have children …
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By Wesley J. Smith Will artificial wombs replace natural gestation? Until very recently, that notion was a far-fetched conjuring out of futuristic novels such as “Brave New World.” But research that could make this dystopian prospect a reality is fast advancing. Scientists have already gestated premature lambs in artificial wombs and brought mouse fetuses halfway through …
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By Wesley J. Smith Whether legalising EAS [Euthanasia/Assisted Suicide] encourages suicide or helps prevent suicide is an empirical question. We need to look at the evidence. There have been several studies published on this topic in peer review journals in recent years. These studies have found that, after EAS is introduced: No study has found a …
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By Wesley J. Smith The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled 4–2 that the state constitution does not compel allowing physician-assisted suicide. From Kligler v Attorney General: Although we recognize the paramount importance and profound significance of all end-of-life decisions, after careful consideration, we conclude that the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights does not reach so far as to …
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By Wesley J. Smith This is the world of bioethics, the “experts” whom we are supposed to trust to guide public policy on a range of issues, from medical policy to environmental law. We should not listen to a word the mainstreamers have to say — as this article telling us not to have children …
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By Wesley J Smith In my first ever anti-euthanasia piece, which was published in Newsweek back in 1993, I warned that legalizing assisted suicide would lead to organ harvesting of those killed by doctors “as a plum to society.” For my trouble. I was called alarmist and hysterical—and those were the nice letters. Alas, rather than being alarmist, I …
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By Wesley J. Smith We aren’t an anti-suicide culture anymore. Oh, sure. We bemoan those of veterans and teenagers — still — but the elderly, ill, and disabled? Not so much. The assisted-suicide movement boosts suicide in many forms. One of the most insidious is known in euthanasia parlance as VSED, which stands for “voluntary stop …
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By Wesley J. Smith Another study — actually, a study of other studies — has concluded that legalizing euthanasia and/or assisted suicide leads to more suicide. From “Does Legalising Assisted Suicide Make Things Better Or Worse?” published by the Anscombe Bioethics Center: Whether legalising EAS [Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide] encourages suicide or helps prevent suicide …
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By Wesley J. Smith What would it feel like if your doctor suggested euthanasia as a “treatment” for your medical problems? It would enervate hope, to say the least, and suggest that the doctor does not think your life worth living. Well, this kind of seed-planting is exactly the approach that Canadian M.D.s are being …
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By Wesley J. Smith The media already mostly ignores anti-assisted-suicide voices in its biased reporting on that issue. Now, Physicians for Reproductive Health — an organization of pro-abortion medical and non-medical activists — is pushing the media to ban all pro-life voices from its reporting on abortion. From the organization’s open letter to the media, “Stop Giving Airtime …
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