Human Exceptionalism

This article, published by Catholic World Report, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley Smith: Wesley Smith, on his blog Secondhand Smoke, recently wrote that potential targets include “patients with profound cognitive impairments who will remain unconscious or minimally aware for the rest of their lives.” The rest of the article can be found here.

This article, published by Real Clear Politics, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley Smith: Wesley Smith, an invaluable investigative reporter on the dangers of government-controlled health care, describes the consequences if Obamacare is not repealed by the next Congress after the midterm elections … The rest of the article can be found here.

This article, published by The New Republic, provides a review of Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith and his book A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy: In his new book, Wesley J. Smith takes aim at Newkirk’s statement, and PETA, and the animal rights movement, and the belief that valuing humans over animals is a Read More ›

This article, published by The Jewish World Review, quotes Discovery Institute Fellow Wesley Smith: Wesley Smith, an invaluable investigative reporter on the dangers of government-controlled health care, describes the consequences if ObamaCare is not repealed by the next Congress after the midterm elections … The rest of the article can be found here.

This article, published by Salvo, contains an interview with Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith: Back in Salvo 9, we featured an interview with the always-intriguing Wesley J. Smith, a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute, an attorney for the Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, and a special consultant to the Center for Bioethics and Culture. The rest of the article can be Read More ›

Since 1988, when euthanasia advocates failed to qualify for a legalization initiative on the California ballot, the assisted suicide movement in the United States has gone from a barely noticed fringe movement to a well-funded political machine that threatens Hippocratic medical values and the sanctity/equality of human life. Consider the disturbing history: In 1994, Oregon legalized assisted suicide (by a Read More ›

Many more sick people need kidneys, hearts, and livers than there are kidneys, hearts, and livers to go around. This shortage is the result of both decreased supply and increased demand. For example, public safety laws requiring that motorists wear seat belts and motorcyclists helmets have reduced the kind of catastrophic head injuries that often lead to organ donation. At Read More ›

Embryonic stem cells aren’t much in the news these days. President Bush’s embryonic stem cell funding restrictions are history and the invention of induced pluripotent stem cells may allow scientists to obtain the benefits of embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos. But that doesn’t mean the struggle over our biotechnological future is over. To the contrary, the current relative quiet Read More ›

This article, published by Catholic Culture, provides quotes from an interview with Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith: In its April issue, Catholic World Report published a fascinating interview with Wesley J. Smith, a Senior Fellow in Human Rights and Bioethics at the Discovery Institute. The rest of the article can be found here.