By Wesley J. Smith It is a sad fact of contemporary political life in the USA that the Democratic party pushes killing as an acceptable answer to human problems, e.g., the Culture of Death. Consider this very partial list: The New Jersey Legislature, Democratic...
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Promoters of the culture of death never rest on their laurels
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...
Wesley J. Smith’s “The Culture of Death”: a second chance to read an invaluable resource
By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. My wife and I are in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where the 2017 National Right to Life Convention begins tomorrow morning. One of our featured speakers is bioethicist Wesley J. Smith. For those coming to NRL 2017 or who are wavering, here is a...
My Trip to Georgetown University: The Inspiration of a New Generation
By Nancy Valko I was honored to be asked to give a talk at the annual Cardinal O’Connor Conference On Life at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. on January 28, 2017, the day after the annual March for Life. To be honest, I believe that I received more from the...
A Suicidal Ballot in Colorado
Coloradans will vote on an assisted suicide measure this November. Those who vote “Yes” are signing their own death warrants. By John Stonestreet In a recent article at National Review Online, George Weigel tells a chilling story about just how far the culture of...
“Culture of Death”: a mother lode of insight and wisdom
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...
Dissecting the age of ‘do harm’ medicine
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...
Netherlander Suicide Clinic for the Depressed
By Wesley J. Smith Euthanasia and the Culture of Death are like the man-eating plant in Little Shop of Horrors: No matter how much you feed it, the beast always wants more! The Netherlands has been expanding the categories of the killable caste for decades....
Nursing Home Won’t Starve Mother–Family Sues
By Wesley J. Smith This is how far the culture of death has come. I reported earlier about the controversy in Canada in which a family wants a nursing home to stop spoon feeding their mother because she would not want to be kept alive with Alzheimer’s. But no one has...
How the Culture of Death Metastasizes
By Wesley J. Smith The culture of death is like a cancer sapping the moral health of western society. And, like a cancer, it never stops spreading. Here’s how: I wrote earlier today about Oxford bioethicist Julian Savulescu supporting palliated self starvation as a...