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Congress Should Pass the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 27, 2019}

Unfortunately, the bill is opposed by some opponents of assisted suicide, people who are my friends and whom I respect for their commitment to defending the practice of ethical medicine. This makes no sense to me. The more confidence people have that their loved ones will be cared for properly … » Go

Transhumanism, the Lazy Way to Human ‘Improvement’

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 11, 2019}

Sometimes you have to laugh. In “Transhumanism and the Death of Human Exceptionalism,”published in Aero, Peter Clarke quotes criticism I leveled against transhumanism from a piece I wrote entitled, “The Transhumanist Bill of Wrongs” From my piece: Transhumanism … » Go

Is Society Now Adopting the Values of ‘Blade Runner’?

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 3, 2019}

“Blade Runner” may be the most influential science fiction movie of my lifetime. The 1982 film starred a terrific Harrison Ford as a world-weary detective assigned to find a terrorist cell of artificially intelligent cyborgs with super human capacities. Led by Rutger Hauer, the cyborgs … » Go

Euthanasia Zealots Push Starvation as ‘Death with Dignity’

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 11, 2018}

It’s getting very dark in euthanasia-land. Not content with legalizing assisted suicide for the terminally ill in six states plus the District of Columbia — with Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Colombia allowing lethal jab euthanasia — and unsatiated with Switzerland’s … » Go

Oversight Needed

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 11, 2018}

Somewhere in the Great Beyond, Aldous Huxley must have been shaking his head and saying “I told you so” after Chinese scientist He Jiankui announced the birth of twin girls whose genes he claimed to have edited. If true, these are the first genetically engineered human babies. After creating … » Go

Canadian Doctors Get Ready for Child Euthanasia

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 5, 2018}

It never made any sense. The assurance that active euthanasia would always be limited to terminally ill, competent adults just never made any sense. Here’s the problem: Once a society widely supports eliminating suffering by eliminating the sufferer and redefines as a “medical … » Go

Transhumanist Bill of Wrongs

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 23, 2018}

Transhumanists have seen the future and it is authoritarian. More specifically, it is both authoritarian and anti-human. To make matters even worse, transhumanism would coercively bankrupt the world economy. Beyond that, it’s a pipe dream that threatens venerable Western values. What’s not to … » Go

A Gruesome Plan

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 17, 2018}

The Hippocratic Oath is dead. “Do no harm” medicine is fast becoming extinct. Contemporary health care is increasingly under the sway of a utilitarian bioethics that makes the elimination of suffering the prime directive—to the detriment of traditional standards of medical morality that deem … » Go

The Return of Nature Worship

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 6, 2018}

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The Return of Nature Worship

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 6, 2018}

We live in decadent times. Universal human rights have not been fully attained, yet radical environmentalists insist that flora, fauna and even geological features and structures should be deemed legal persons, a meme known as “nature rights.” The drive to grant rights to the … » Go

Euthanasia is Almost a Declaration of ‘No Confidence’ in Medicine

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 1, 2018}

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Euthanasia is Almost a Declaration of ‘No Confidence’ in Medicine

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 1, 2018}

Sputnik: What is your take on euthanasia and assisted suicide? How justified is this practice? Wesley Smith: I’ve been opposing assisted suicide and euthanasia for 20 years. I see it as a form of abandonment, when you have somebody who is suffering. To say to them: “Yes, the … » Go

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Mind Matters

Scientists’ Definition of Life Excludes AI, but Includes Embryos

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 6, 2019}

Speaking of moral value, the professors’ proposed definition would certainly include the earliest human embryos, their status as “human life” often denied by those who wish to justify their wanton destruction or casual instrumental use as natural resources.

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Transhumanism, the Lazy Way to Human ‘Improvement’

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 8, 2019}

The transhumanist movement swoons over increasing intelligence. If I had to choose between increasing the intelligence of the human race versus enhancing our capacity to love, the human race would be far better off embracing the latter than the former. There is no brain implant for that.

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