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Court Finds No Constitutional Right to Assisted Suicide in Massachusetts

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 19, 2022}

I just hope that state’s legislators read this decision carefully because, as the paragraph I quoted above demonstrates, maintaining the law against assisted suicide serves and protects the general welfare and is in the public interest.

Now, It’s Carbon ‘Net-Zero Healthcare’ to Fight Global Warming

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 16, 2022}

With all of the wokeness and technocratic impositions the medical establishment is eager to impose on health care these days, why would anyone go to medical school or become a hospital administrator?

Hospice in Crisis

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 15, 2022}

This much is clear: Hospice either gets fixed, or society will be pushed into the arms of the euthanasia movement, with all of its attendant evils (as currently unfolding in Canada). Because people are not going to put up with their loved ones dying in agony.

Wesley J. Smith Discusses Dutch Court Decision to Strike Down Measure that Expands Euthanasia Laws

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 15, 2022}

A court has struck down a measure to expand euthanasia laws in the Netherlands. Activists wanted to make it legal for non-medical professionals to perform assisted suicide procedures.

Euthanasia Without Brakes

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 8, 2022}

If we don’t change our current cultural trajectory we will end up in the same dark corner as Canada, the Netherlands, and Belgium. And the real danger to our cultural wellbeing is that the people who now complacently assume that such warnings are alarmist will be the ones applauding the loudest when that dark time comes.

‘Human Composting’ Promoted in New York Times

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 5, 2022}

How we treat our dead reflects our views on what we think about the living. In this sense, human composting — and even more so, another growing practice of liquifying bodies and pouring the remains into the sewer — reflects a disturbing mindset that denies ultimate meaning to human life and views us, essentially, as just another animal in the forest.

Wesley J. Smith Breaks Down the Left’s Push for “Human Unexceptionalism” With Laura Ingraham

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 2, 2022}

Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith joined Laura Ingraham to discuss the culture of death that now pervades the Left and the wages of its anti-humanist philosophy.

The Respect for Marriage Act Would Allow the State to Regulate Domestic Relations

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 25, 2022}

I have been puzzled about the urgency to pass the Respect for Marriage Act before the end of the current Congress. Despite Justice Thomas’s dictum in his Dobbs concurrence that Obergefell (which created a constitutional right to same-sex marriage) should be overturned, I cannot discern a reason to force such a case onto the Court’s docket. If some traditional-marriage activists tried to do so, they would almost surely fail, but even if four Justices eventually voted to hear such a case, it would be years before the matter would be ripe for ultimate adjudication. So, why the rush? In part, I think it is to enable immediate federal regulation of marriage law. Bureaucrats can’t promulgate rules based on a Supreme Court ruling: They need an enabling statute. …

The United States of Social Anarchy

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 21, 2022}

Can you sense it? Do you feel the dread? Institutions are failing. Cohesion has frayed. As the poet wrote, the center cannot hold, the best lack all conviction, while the worst are filled with passionate intensity. Our country is becoming the United States of Social Anarchy.

Unleash the Trial Lawyers to End Mutilation of Gender-Dysphoric Children

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 12, 2022}

The Biden administration, many state governments, and the medical establishment are all pushing “gender-affirming care” as the only humane means of treating children who believe they are not the sex they were born. This so-called care includes radical interventions such as puberty blocking, mastectomies, facial surgeries, and even genital removal for teenagers.

‘Nullectomy’: Physician-Assisted Mutilation

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 2, 2022}

I don’t know how much more of this our culture can take. “Gender-affirming” surgeries are growing increasingly extreme. A source sent me links to websites operated by doctors who perform “bottom surgeries” advertising “genital nullification” — a.k.a. “nullectomy” — procedures that remove genitalia in order to create a “smooth” appearance in the groin.

Bioethicist Proposes ‘Right’ to Gender-Affirming Care

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 1, 2022}

It is important to keep an eye on mainstream bioethics journals, because seemingly ludicrous ideas that begin in the ivory tower often become public policy.

Religious Freedom: Biden Policy Not Where Administration’s Mouth Is

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 28, 2022}

Until President Biden protects the right to act in the public square here at home consistently with one’s religious beliefs, his administration’s support for International Religious Freedom Day has to be judged so much hot air.

Science Journal Claim: ‘Ocean’ Is a ‘Living Entity’ with Inherent Rights

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 19, 2022}

I have been warning that the “nature rights” issue is moving very quickly now from the fringe to mainstream environmentalism. Now, a major essay in a prestigious, peer-reviewed scientific journal argues that oceans are a “living entity” entitled to rights.

Hundreds of Teen ‘Gender-Affirming’ Mastectomies Each Year

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 18, 2022}

I believe this moral panic will end when trial lawyers catch the scent of money and malpractice cases flood the courts — as has started in the U.K. That time cannot arrive soon enough.

Don’t Let Doctors Kill Sick Patients for Their Organs

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 17, 2022}

Some lines should never be crossed. Allowing doctors to kill patients during organ harvesting wouldn’t only be an acute threat to the sanctity of life, but I can think of no better way to sow mistrust in our health care system generally—and the lifesaving field of organ transplant medicine specifically.

The Law Society in U.K. Endorses ‘Nature Rights’

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 13, 2022}

The nature-rights movement continues to move from the fringe into decidedly establishment circles, with virtually no push back and a foolish, “It will never happen here,” shrugging of the collective shoulders. Now, the U.K.’s Law Society — the organization that represents solicitors, roughly equivalent to the ABA — has issued a report calling for the establishment of nature and non-human rights.