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Is Transgenderism the First Wave of Transhumanism?

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 27, 2023}

Transhumanism is a futuristic social movement that advocates harnessing the transformative powers of computer science, biotechnology, and medicine to create a “post-human species.”

NY Trans Bill Imperils Female Inmates

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 26, 2023}

Do New York Democrats hate women inmates? Or just not care about their well-being and safety?

A Biden Second Term Threatens Freedom of Religion

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 25, 2023}

President Biden is running for reelection. His video announcement claims that the primary issue before the country is whether “there will be more or less freedom.” I agree with him. Only, he is the candidate of less freedom.

Oregon Bill Forcing Health Insurance to Pay for Gender Transitions Excludes Detransition Care

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 23, 2023}

This is all so corrosive to societal cohesiveness, and goodness knows how it will end. But good on Representative Diehl for bringing greater clarity to this important social controversy. Some gender identifications are seen by progressives as better than others.

Colorado Outlaws Medical-Abortion Reversal

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 18, 2023}

So much for “choice.” A new Colorado law outlaws doctors’ prescribing of a medical-abortion-reversal treatment to prevent a termination from completing.

How Assisted Suicide Advocacy Overturned Roe v. Wade

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 17, 2023}

Back in the 1990s, noting the success of abortion rights advocacy in the federal courts, the assisted-suicide movement moved to circumvent the democratic process by convincing the United States Supreme Court to impose an assisted suicide Roe v. Wade: a decision that would establish doctor-prescribed or administered death as a national constitutional right. The assisted suicide advocates succeeded in obtaining two Supreme Court hearings. However, in a delicious irony, not only did their cases fail abysmally, but the precedent the Supreme Court established in one of the cases would years later become the hammer that shattered the constitutional right to abortion. The Attempt to Declare Washington’s Law Banning Assisted Suicide Unconstitutional In 1994, the assisted …

Dutch Expand Euthanasia to Children Ages One to Twelve

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 16, 2023}

Because of course they do. Once euthanasia is accepted by a society, it is a one-way street, continually expanding the killable castes. The Dutch already allowed euthanasia for ages twelve and up. Now, it is down to age one. From the NTD News story: The Netherlands has said it will broaden its euthanasia regulations to allow doctors the ability to end the lives of terminally ill children between one and 12 years old. The rule change involves the government adjusting an existing protocol, and does not require parliamentary approval. The decision comes after years of requests from some Dutch doctors to lower the age limit of 12 for euthanasia, as well as debate within the cabinet. According to the Dutch government, “The end of life for this group is …

California Bill to Exclude Parents from Children’s Mental-Health Care

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 14, 2023}

Progressives increasingly are attacking the right of parents to be in charge of the care of their children — particularly around LGBT issues and sexual-related matters such as birth control and abortion.

Did Walter Reed Hospital Neglect Faith Needs of Catholic Patients?

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 13, 2023}

It isn’t a secret that the U.S. military is growing increasingly woke. But as it embraces progressive social values, are the services becoming concomitantly less tolerant of faith — or perhaps better stated, uncomprehending of its importance to believing members?

Transhumanists’ Futile Quest for Eternal Life

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 9, 2023}

I understand the yearning of atheists and materialists to escape the nihilism that the expectation of personal obliteration at death can generate in the human heart. But eternal life is not something that we have the power to invent — no matter how technologically advanced we become. Whatever that experience might be, it will be found in a Kingdom that is not of this world.

UN-Sponsored Report Would Destroy Communities by Gutting Criminal Law

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 7, 2023}

If you like the chaos and criminality unleashed in some of our greatest cities by progressive district attorneys refusing to enforce the criminal law, you will love the “reforms” a new UN-sponsored report advocates for the entire world.

Belgium to Allow Repeated Gender Changes

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 28, 2023}

We live in an irrational age. Germany allows people to change their gender once a year by simply filing an official form. And now, Belgium is about to allow people to change gender — apparently, whenever they want.

Terri Schiavo Case Was a Culture-of-Death Tipping Point

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 28, 2023}

The March 31, 2005, court-ordered death of Terri Schiavo was an ominous cultural tipping point. As many readers will recall, the legal case began when Terri’s husband Michael Schiavo applied to remove the feeding tube from his profoundly cognitively disabled wife so that she would die by dehydration. When Terri’s parents Bob and Mary Schindler, joined by her siblings Bobby and Suzanne, fought the plan in court, profoundly important cultural and legal battle lines were drawn that were destined to change the country.

Granting Rights to Great Salt Lake Pushed in New York Times

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 27, 2023}

The nature rights movement keeps making inroads into establishment thinking — and people keep ignoring the threat.

Oregon Legislation Would Allow Children to Decide About Abortion/Transgenderism Without Parental Consent

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 25, 2023}

Political progressives want to divorce children from their parents regarding crucial issues such as sex, abortion, and transgenderism. Pending legislation from the hard-left state of Oregon would do just that.

Death Activists Oppose Limits on Virtual Access to Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 22, 2023}

Assisted-suicide advocates say they believe in “strict guidelines to guard against abuse.” They don’t. They write bills as broadly as they deem politically expedient and then expand access as people become accustomed to doctors prescribing overdoses to ill, suicidal patients.

Euthanasia’s Cultural Collateral Damage: Less Respect for Human Life

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 21, 2023}

Euthanasia causes egregious cultural damage beyond the direct consequences of allowing the killing — or facilitating the suicides — of sick and disabled people.

Former Public Health Officials Undermine Public Trust with Conduct Unbecoming Scientists

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 10, 2023}

Anthony Fauci, the former head of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, infamously boasted, “I represent science.” Let’s hope not. His actions during the COVID emergency both corrupted science and undermined trust in our most important public health institutions.

Mice Born with No Mother, Two Fathers

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 9, 2023}

Biotechnologists keep pushing the borders of what is possible in procreation. Mice pups have now been born with no mother and two fathers.

Shame on Trump Jr. for Calling Fetterman a ‘Vegetable’

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 3, 2023}

It was wrong when people called Terri Schiavo a “vegetable,” and it is wrong when Donald Trump Jr. wields the same slur against Senator John Fetterman at CPAC.