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Editor’s note. This comes from Right to Life of Michigan, NRLC’s state affiliate. RTL of Michigan has run a monthly series looking back at historically significant prolife moments in the state’s history. This is the seventh and final entry. The question of where you...
By Dave Andrusko This post is built on a terrific story by Right to Life of Michigan--“Stumping for secret court orders and secret DNR orders--which we are reposting and dozens and dozens of stories we wrote about “Dr. Death,” Jack Kevorkian. Although now deceased,...
By Wesley J. Smith When I was contacted by a high school student writing a paper about the historical significance of Jack Kevorkian, I hadn’t considered that particular aspect of his saga before, and so I took some time answering her. I then made that question the...
By Dave Andrusko Earlier this year, January to be specific, pro-life bioethicist Wesley J. Smith wrote a column, spurred by a student who wrote to tell Wesley that he was writing a paper about the historical significance of Jack Kevorkian. The column was quite...
By Wesley J. Smith The revisionism about Jack Kevorkian and his purposes will not stop–and it can’t be allowed to stand. The truth about K and what he was really after–his true motives–is too important, because it not only shows the seductive nihilism of our present...
By Wesley J. Smith I was recently contacted by a high school student writing a paper about the historical significance of Jack Kevorkian. I hadn’t considered that particular aspect of his saga before, and so I took some time answering her. I then made that...
By Wesley J. Smith I am often asked for interviews by students who are writing papers about the assisted suicide issue. I am always happy to oblige. Most ask why I oppose assisted suicide and whether I think guidelines can prevent the slippery slope. But, the...
By Wesley J. Smith In the midst of the Brittany Maynard media mania, it struck me how prophetic Jack Kevorkian was about how deeply the culture of death would subsume the culture of the West. So, I took to the pages of the Weekly Standard to issue a storm...
He’s looking alarmingly prophetic. By Wesley J. Smith Assisted suicide exploded into the news again two months ago after Brittany Maynard, dying of brain cancer, announced she would take a lethal prescription as permitted under Oregon law. Maynard became an...
By Wesley J. Smith I believe that America’s embrace of the ghoul Jack Kevorkian–that is not name-calling, see below–is a portentous symptom of cultural dissipation. The current First Things contains a vivid article about one of K’s deaths–who was found to have...