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Wesley J. Smith

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As Euthanasia Looms, How to Save the Hospice Movement

Often now people approach me after a speech or call in on talk radio to tell me that they do not trust hospice to properly care for their loved ones.
Leading palliative care doctor Ira Byock offers four proposals to address the current problems with hospice care. Read More ›
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Vial with the word euthanasia on it.

The Callous Cruelty of Canadian Euthanasia Illustrated

A death doctor was willing to kill Paula, despite knowing that many of her problems were social
A church minister quieted her fears and told her that she should "just let go of this empty, empty world.” Read More ›
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Saint Catherine's Monastery. Sacred Monastery of the God-Trodden Mount Sinai. Bell tower at Saint Catherine's Monastery. The monastery is one of the oldest working Christian monasteries in the world

Egypt To Expropriate Historic St. Catherine’s Monastery?

The fate of St. Catherine’s as a symbol is of greater importance than the fate of this particular holy site and its resident monks
Religious freedom includes the right to maintain sacred sites as well as to worship freely. Read More ›
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Closeup of paragraph symbol with vaccination injection syringe - euthanasia assisted suicide dying concept

France: Assisted Suicide on the March

Right-to-die campaigners have welcomed the law, though describing it as relatively modest in scope.
“It’s a foot in the door, which will be important for what comes next,” said Stéphane Gemmani of the ADMD association. Read More ›
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hyperrealistic digital sculpture of gaia as a living mountain range with rivers for veins and forests for hair emerging from a swirling cosmic mist

National Geographic Society to Fund ‘Nature Rights’ Advocacy

Geological features such as rivers, glaciers, waves, and even a mountain have already been granted “rights.”
“Nature rights” are unnecessary for proper environmental protection. The point is to throttle human activities. Read More ›
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Human Skull Desertification Climate Change Drought Death Arid Land Environmental Crisis

IVF Clinic Bomber Infected by Anti-Humanism

According to media reports, Bartkus, who died at the scene, was a “‘pro-mortalist’ (believing death is preferable to living) or an ‘anti-natalist’ (believing no more human beings should be born).”
Culturally accepted human-phobia can be dangerous. There are mentally unbalanced people out there who don’t see misanthropy as merely an intellectual mind game. Read More ›
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Syringe with anaesthetic drug - Propofol, ready for infusion.

The Lies in New York’s Assisted Suicide Bill

New York is close to passing a bill to legalize assisted suicide. Having passed the assembly, it is currently being considered in the senate
Falsifying death certificates, for example, prevents transparency. Investigators will be unable to access the information they need to conduct independent studies. Read More ›
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Bioethics And The Law

Bioethics: Just Another Social-Justice Political Movement Now?

A new survey shows how the movement has swung toward pushing woke “social justice” initiatives as its primary purpose
Respondents overwhelmingly wanted an even more monolithic approach to social justice through what could be argued as an indoctrinating approach to education. Read More ›
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Black dominoes chain on table background

Estonia’s Supreme Court Declares a Right to Suicide

At least these rulings candidly cut through the toxic smoke so often generated by assisted-suicide advocates
Such rulings demonstrate that the real goal/destination is a right to death by any competent person for any cause and assisted by anyone. Read More ›
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hands holiding red heart with kidney, world kidney day, organ donor day

Human Kidney Suppliers Should Be Donors, Not Vendors

The government would be, essentially, paying people to harm themselves. People who are already disadvantaged would be most likely to volunteer
There are ample reasons why only one country in the world — Iran — allows kidney-selling. Not everything should be a sellable product. Read More ›
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eccentric mad scientist set against a solid green felt background, showcasing their quirky personality and wild inventions. Ideal for promoting creativity, science events, or educational materials

The Wrong Tool to Fix Woke Science Journals

The government has no business pressuring medical journals about their content — even if their bias is ruining historic reputations
The First Amendment applies here. The editors and publishers have every right to destroy their journals’ reputations without fear of being investigated. Read More ›
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little bald girl after chemotherapy session with her caring and supportive brother in a hospital room, supporting family, hope and recovery from cancer

A Compassionate Doctor Keeps Hope Alive

As this story shows, sometimes the hope is not for a cure so much as for assurance that the patient has not been abandoned
There are signs of a needed pushback against a bioethics-driven “just check all the boxes” approach to terminal care where the need for hope is brushed aside. Read More ›
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alien planet landscape, beautiful forest the surface of an exoplanet

Why Life Beyond Earth Would Prove Human Exceptionalism

A science writer thinks that finding life on other planets in our galaxy would somehow put a dent in our “self-importance”
Actually, human minds created sophisticated instruments that project our understanding light years away, using the scientific method that we created. Read More ›
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Beauty injection concept. Syringe with violet liquid for hypodermic injection.

New Jersey Program Aims to Prevent Suicide— Just Not All Suicides

In New Jersey, the self-terminations of people with a prognosis of six months or less ceases to be “suicide” when facilitated by a doctor
Yet terminally ill patients opt for assisted suicide typically because of issues such as fears of burdening family, losing dignity, not untreatable pain. Read More ›
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Aerial View of Coal Fired Power Plant on the Ohio River

Medical Journal Article Urges Mass Propaganda Against Fossil Fuel

Medical intellectuals may be clueless, but most people understand that modern society depends on the ubiquitous use of fossil fuels
Plastic, used in countless medical products, could not be manufactured including artificial heart valves. Irony: Plastic cells are used in solar panels Read More ›
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Surdose

Famed Ethics Prof Endorses Suicide for Old People in New York Times

Peter Singer supports suicide not just for those who are ill now but who fear that they might become so
Do the philosophers not understand how bigoted and anti-intrinsic dignity of life their relativistic assumptions are about when a life is worth continuing? Read More ›
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How ‘Expedience Ethics’ Busts Through Moral Limits

Under the new definition, an embryo isn’t considered an embryo if it is to be used as research fodder rather than gestated. Read More ›
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Autumn River Tours in Canada illustrated in a clean infographic, showcasing river cruises and canoe trips through scenic waterways like the Saint Lawrence and Ottawa River

New York State: Bill of Rights Proposed for Lakes, Waterways

Imagine the disruption of normal life if waterways could not be used to make a living or be treated as property at all. But that’s the goal
This bill illustrates the expansive and anti-human goals of the nature-rights movement, which is gaining steam every day. Read More ›
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Close-up shot of microscope with metal lens at laboratory.

75% of Scientists in Nature Survey Thinking About Leaving U.S.

But there is less to this "trend" than meets the eye, when we look more closely at the survey
Respondents were self-selected and are probably more ideological or more personally impacted by the changes in approach. Read More ›
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Enteral feeding dropper and a old man patient in the hospital with oxygen mask in the background

Bioethicists Get Legacy of Terri Schiavo Death Wrong

Some bioethicists complain that her protracted starvation death has powered pro-life forces into political prominence
In reality, after the Schiavo case encouraged acceptance, majorities supported such deaths and people with severe brain injuries became a disposable caste. Read More ›