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Washington Democrats Vote to Shield Runaway Transgender Kids and Girls Seeking Abortion from Parents

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 2, 2023}

The Left is hell-bent on allowing children to transition — regardless of what their parents believe is right or the potential harm done to young bodies.

Why You Should Binge Read Dean Koontz

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 28, 2023}

If you want a rollicking good time spiced with powerful social commentary that stands unapologetically for righteousness and human liberty, a Dean Koontz novel fills the bill. But be forewarned. Once you start reading, you won’t want to stop until the last page is turned.

Lengthening Statute of Limitations to Stop Transgender-Youth Mutilations

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 23, 2023}

I believe that one day the transgender moral panic will come crashing down. But not before thousands of minors are harmed by having their natural puberties blocked, breasts removed, and even worse.

Transforming WHO into a Public-Health Technocracy

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 20, 2023}

In the name of preventing and fighting pandemics, the Biden administration and international entities are negotiating an agreement that would establish a public-health technocracy.

No, ‘More Sex’ Will Not Cure Loneliness

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 15, 2023}

The New York Times often promotes socially destructive policies and reckless personal behaviors in opinion columns. The latest example sees self-identified “sex and culture” writer Magdalene J. Taylor promoting promiscuity as a socially desirable cure for loneliness that will benefit society by forging greater levels of “social solidarity.”

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s Anti-Suicide Walk Ignores Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 13, 2023}

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention is holding an overnight walk in Washington, D.C., on June 3 to fight suicide. From the “Why We Walk” promotion for “Out of the Darkness“: As you walk over 16 miles from dusk till dawn, you’ll find support and understanding in a community of others affected by suicide. Together, we will help put a stop to this leading cause of death. That’s great. But do the ads or promotional material even mention that Washington, D.C., legalized assisted suicide several years ago? Do they mention that people who ask for assisted suicide are almost never offered suicide prevention? And do they mention that studies are now showing a connection between assisted-suicide legalization and increasing suicide rates generally? …

‘Nature Rights’ Pushed in the Lancet

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 9, 2023}

I have been writing for some time about how establishment medicine and bioethics have become profoundly ideological to the point of crossing into the nihilism of anti-humanism. Now, the world’s oldest and one of the field’s most established medical — not environmental — journals has published an advocacy column in favor of granting “rights” to “nature.” The author backs the concept of granting humans the right to a clean environment: a plausible proposition that at least maintains the concept of rights that belong exclusively to the human realm. However, according to Hong Kong–based bioethicist and law professor Eric C. Ip, such rights do not go nearly far enough. He wants rights granted to nature, which would thereby reject human exceptionalism. From the …

Harvesting Clones to Live Forever Would Be Monstrous

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 8, 2023}

Transhumanists believe that technology will allow them to live forever — or, at least, indefinitely — in the corporeal world. One scheme by which they think they might accomplish this goal is to create clones of themselves and then scavenge those clones’ bodies for parts to be transplanted. This idea was just featured in the Daily Mail: Regardless of the huge strides scientists have made towards reaching the elusive goal, immortality remains a pipedream. But one researcher in the anti-ageing field believe we could get there — or at least extend human lives beyond the current biological boundaries — without any miracle pill or injection. Dr Alex Zhavoronkov, head of biotech company Insilico Medicine, says human clones could offer the answer to eternal life. …

Canadian Minister of Health: ‘Suicidal’ Are Not Eligible for Euthanasia

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 7, 2023}

Assisted-suicide activists play a word game when they insist that the practice isn’t really “suicide.” They claim that a person who seeks death does so only because of serious illness or disability. If a person is healthy, this claim goes, he or she wouldn’t have wanted to die. Thus, assisted suicide isn’t suicide but merely medical aid in dying (MAiD). But the same kind of reasoning could be applied to anyone who seeks to die, regardless of the circumstances. Had the grieving mother’s child not been hit by a car, for example, she wouldn’t be thinking of killing herself. But for his chronic depression, the psychiatric patient wouldn’t want to die. Had the entrepreneur’s business not collapsed, he wouldn’t want to end it all. You get the idea. Canada’s health …

Suicide Tourism Comes to Oregon

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 5, 2023}

Assisted-suicide activists always promise that strict guidelines will protect against abuse. It’s a big con. The guidelines are not really strict. They rely primarily on self-reporting. And they are meant to be temporary: As soon as political conditions permit, the access to doctor-prescribed death expands.

Freedom of Religion on the Chopping Block

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 2, 2023}

Intolerant secularism is on the march. In a blatant campaign of cultural imperialism, secularists and their leftist allies aim to shrivel the “free exercise” of religion to mere “freedom of worship.”

The Fantasy of Living Forever in a Computer

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 2, 2023}

Transhumanists pursue the dream of immortality by hoping to upload their minds into computers — as if the mimicking software would be them. No, it would be a computer program, nothing more. They would still be dead and gone. And here’s another somewhat less ambitious approach to the same goal. Apparently a company is developing technology that would allow you to speak to loved ones after you shuffle off this mortal coil. From the Vice story: The founder of a top metaverse company says that the fast-moving development of ChatGPT has pushed the timeline for one of his most ambitious and eccentric projects up by a matter of years. In an interview with Motherboard, Somnium Space’s Artur Sychov said a user has started to integrate OpenAI’s chatbot …

Mass. Democrats Propose Turning Prisoners into Organ Farms

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 1, 2023}

This proposal suffers from the same fatal ethical flaw. Prisoners are hardly in an equal bargaining position. Nor should they be induced to turn themselves into a natural resource ripe for the harvest.

Here Comes ‘Transableism’

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 27, 2023}

Once surgically altering people who feel they are the different sex than they were when born becomes normalized, we will soon be ready for the next abyss. What is that? “Transableism.”

The ‘Pregnancy Tissue’ Deflection

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 23, 2023}

The last thing that abortion-rights activists want is an accurate description of what a pregnancy termination destroys.

To Reduce Abortions, Should Giving Birth Be Free?

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 18, 2023}

With Roe v. Wade now in the dustbin of history, the pro-life movement is switching gears to the difficult task of persuading the country to reject abortion. Americans United for Life is in the thick of that fray and has now issued a white paper arguing that birth should be free to every mother in the USA.

The Transgender Tide Is Turning

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 16, 2023}

The time has come for an intense but mutually respectful societal conversation that focuses not only on the causes of transgenderism and the potential benefits of transitioning such people, but also the many risks and alternatives that can care compassionately for suffering people while maintaining cultural equilibrium. Our future thriving requires nothing less.

Maryland Catholic Hospital Liable for Refusing Transgender Hysterectomy

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 12, 2023}

Two principles of Catholic health-care ethics forbid removing healthy organs and sterilizing a patient absent a necessity caused by a pathology, such as cancer. These principles are increasingly in conflict with the transgender movement that has the ACLU and others suing when Catholic hospitals refuse transgender surgeries based on these religiously based precepts.

‘Baby Farms’ Are Already Here

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 2, 2023}

Will artificial wombs replace natural gestation? Until very recently, that notion was a far-fetched conjuring out of futuristic novels such as “Brave New World.” But research is fast advancing that could make this dystopian prospect a reality.

The Fear of Suffering is Driving Us Crazy

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 20, 2022}

But eliminating suffering is impossible. Not only is the goal Utopian, but it leads to ever-more-extreme distortions of decency and a collapse of public policy rationality—which ironically, can cause the very “evil” that suffering abolitionists yearn so desperately to prevent.