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Wesley J. Smith
December 13, 2025
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Assisted Suicide Legalized in Illinois

Wesley J. Smith
December 13, 2025
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The new Illinois law (SB 1950) contains many of the usual provisions and supposed safeguards. Once the law goes into effect next September, these putative protections will quickly be redefined as “obstacles” to a good death and the inevitable process of legal loosening will commence. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
December 9, 2025
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Purchasers of Black-Market Human Organs Often Complicit in Murder

Wesley J. Smith
December 9, 2025
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The black market in human organs does not receive nearly enough attention. China is probably the worst offender here, with political prisoners like Falun Gong practitioners and Uyghur Muslims arrested, tissue-typed, killed, and harvested to supply well-off buyers who don't want to wait in the donation queue. Now, a gruesome story out of Nigeria vividly illustrates the sheer evil of this trade in human tissues. Read More ›
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Center on Human Exceptionalism
August 28, 2025
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Wesley J. Smith Discusses Mental Health Outcomes for Abortion on The Ann and Phelim Scoop

Center on Human Exceptionalism
August 28, 2025
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Wesley J. Smith appeared on The Ann and Phelim Scoop, hosted by Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer, to discuss his latest article, “Study: Mental Illness More Likely After Abortion Than After Childbirth.” Smith explains why the study is both surprising and significant, discusses the findings, and explores why these findings matter regardless of one’s stance on abortion.

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Wesley J. Smith
August 25, 2025
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Study: Mental Illness More Likely After Abortion Than After Childbirth

Wesley J. Smith
August 25, 2025
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A large scientific study has concluded that women who have had an “induced abortion” were more likely to experience mental conditions than were women who have given birth. The study, published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, followed 28,721 women who induced abortions and 1,228,807 who gave birth in hospitals in Quebec, Canada, between 2006 and 2022. Read More ›