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By Wesley J. Smith Thousands of medical ethicists and bioethicists, as they are called, professionally guide the unthinkable on its passage through the debatable on its way to becoming the justifiable until it is finally established as the unexceptionable. -- Richard...
Says technique should be “restricted” Editor’s note. This is based on a post that appeared on the blog of SPUC--the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children and is reposted with permission. The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has warned that Non-Invasive Prenatal...
By Dave Andrusko My thanks to Kathy Ostrowski, legislative director for Kansans for Life, for sending this link along to me. We’ve written previously about the hugely influential Medical Futility blogspot. It is run by Thaddeus Pope, who is Director, Health Law...
By Wesley J. Smith Bioethics discourse aims to change the practice of medicine and the thrust of public policy -- usually not for the better. As I have been noting, the field increasingly targets the right of doctors to refuse to perform an abortion, euthanize...
By Wesley J. Smith Thousands of medical ethicists and bioethicists, as they are called, professionally guide the unthinkable on its passage through the debatable on its way to becoming the justifiable until it is finally established as the unexceptionable. -- Richard...
By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. My family and I will be on vacation through September 6. I will occasionally add new items but for the most part we will repost “the best of the best” -- the stories our readers have told us they especially liked over the last five...
A leading voice in American bioethics peers into the future in his new book Wesley J. Smith is one of America's leading commentators on bioethical issues, especially assisted suicide and euthanasia. His columns are published in the National Review and he is the author...
By Wesley J. Smith We live in an increasingly secular society. One consequence (among many) of this cultural shift has been an increasing rejection of the once uncontroversial belief that humans reside uniquely at the pinnacle of moral worth. Activist academics,...
By Dave Andrusko On Wednesday we took a first look at the updated edition of Wesley J. Smith’s, “The Culture of Death: The Age of ‘Do Harm’ Medicine.” (The book is available everywhere but at the end of this post, I will offer specific locations.) To close out the...
By Dave Andrusko I was absolutely stunned when I read the first few chapters of “The Culture of Death: The Age of ‘Do Harm’ Medicine,” written by the redoubtable and always insightful Wesley J. Smith. Was it the caliber of his insights? No, I had come to expect...