Author: Wesley Smith

Scientists Are Close to Creating Human Embryos from Stem Cells

By Wesley J. Smith During the great embryonic-stem-cell debate in the early 2000s, I personally witnessed scientists blatantly mislead legislators about biotech issues such as cloning, adult stem cells, and the biological nature of embryos in order to gain funding and/or resist regulations. It was an effective, but disgraceful, tactic that disrespected the democratic process …

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The World Medical Association Subtly Eviscerates Conscience Rights

By Wesley J. Smith The World Medical Association has published a revised “International Code of Medical Ethics” that is intended as “a canon of ethical principles for the members of the medical profession worldwide.” Most of it is fine. For example, the code states that “the physician must provide care with the utmost respect for …

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Bipartisan Senate Bill to Reduce Stillbirths Contains an Irony

By Wesley J. Smith A bipartisan Senate Bill was just announced by Senators Bill Cassidy (R., La.) and Jeff Merkley (D., Ore.) aimed at reducing the number of stillbirths in the country. From the “Maternal and Child Health Stillbirth Prevention Act:” A) In the United States, 1 in 175 births are affected by stillbirth each year amounting …

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Congress Should Ban Quality-of-Life Health-Care Rationing

By Wesley J. Smith Health-care costs are soaring, in part because the medical field is increasingly being put into harness to facilitate lifestyle and self-fulfillment desires. So the pressure is on to ration health care. If we are not careful, rationing could be wielded in an invidious manner against the very sick, elderly, disabled, and those seen …

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Canadian Disabled Woman Opts for Euthanasia Because She Can’t Get Timely Assistance

By Wesley J. Smith So much compassion! A disabled woman with quadriplegia named Rose Finlay in Canada has asked to be euthanized because she is destitute, and the disability benefits she applied for would not arrive in time for her to be properly housed and cared for. From the CBC story: A quadriplegic woman in Bowmanville, Ont., has …

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U.K. Medical Society Goes ‘Neutral’ on Euthanasia as Quebec Expands Eligibility

By Wesley J. Smith     Editor’s note. Wesley J. Smith and Alex Schadenberg are teaming up to address the American and Canadian experience with euthanasia and assisted suicide at the 2023 National Right to Life Convention. For more information, go to https://nrlconvention.com/product-category/2023-registration. How can a medical association be neutral on granting doctors a license to kill or assist the suicide of …

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Bioethicists: Euthanasia Okay for ‘Unjust Social Conditions’

By Wesley J. Smith Editor’s note. Wesley J. Smith and Alex Schadenberg are teaming up to address the American and Canadian experience with euthanasia and assisted suicide at the 2023 National Right to Life Convention. For more information, go to https://nrlconvention.com/product-category/2023-registration. Once killing the sufferer becomes a societally acceptable means for ending suffering, there becomes no end to the “suffering” that justifies …

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Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo Vetoes Assisted Suicide

By Wesley J. Smith Editor’s note. Wesley J. Smith and Alex Schadenberg are teaming up to address the American and Canadian experience with euthanasia and assisted suicide at the 2023 National Right to Life Convention. For more information, go to https://nrlconvention.com/product-category/2023-registration. The Nevada legislature narrowly passed assisted-suicide legalization, but Governor Joe Lombardo has vetoed the bill. From the Las Vegas …

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Is the Plan to Impose a Public-Health Technocracy Faltering?

By Wesley J. Smith In February, I warned about a treaty being negotiated to empower the World Health Organization to declare a pandemic, which would trigger governments assuming mandatory emergency powers. From, “Transforming WHO into a Public-Health Technocracy“: The WHO director-general would be granted the power to “declare pandemics,” at which point emergency provisions of the …

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UN Human Rights Council makes stunning claim that protective abortion laws are ‘racial discrimination’

By Wesley J. Smith  The vaunted international community is determined to impose extremely politically progressive policies on the entire world. Alas, this even includes injecting woke policies into the laudable attempt to draft an “International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.” An end to racism is earnestly to be desired, of course. …

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UN Human Rights Recommendation Brands Abortion Restrictions ‘Racial Discrimination’

By Wesley J. Smith The vaunted international community is determined to impose extremely politically progressive policies on the entire world. Alas, this even includes injecting woke policies into the laudable attempt to draft an “International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. ” An end to racism is earnestly to be desired, of …

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Portugal Legalizes Euthanasia; Nevada Legislature Approves Assisted Suicide

By Wesley J. Smith Editor’s note. Wesley J. Smith and Alex Schadenberg are teaming up to address the American and Canadian experience with euthanasia and assisted suicide at the 2023 National Right to Life Convention. For more information, go to https://nrlconvention.com/product-category/2023-registration. Alas. The president of Portugal just signed into law a bill legalizing euthanasia by lethal injection. It is …

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