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Composting the Dead Devalues the Importance of the Living

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 27, 2022}

Starting in 2027, California will allow composting of the dead. Known officially as “natural organic reduction (NOR),” this novel final disposition process transforms the deceased’s body into soil to spread on gardens or in which to plant flowers or a tree.

‘Nature’ Gets a Seat on the Board

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 27, 2022}

The anthropomorphization of “nature” continues apace, this time with a corporation that sells beauty products called Faith in Nature naming “Nature” as a member of its board of directors.

Assisted Suicide Implicated in Suicide Crisis

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 19, 2022}

If we don’t change our current cultural trajectory, we will not only become pro-some suicides but suicide-embracing all-in-all.

Progressivism Colonizes the Science Journals

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 31, 2022}

The scientific establishment moans that it is no longer trusted. True. But there is good cause. The leadership of the hard-science sector has grown increasingly ideological — undermining the science’s overall credibility.

‘Anything Goes’ Reproduction Gathers Steam

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 30, 2022}

Medicine isn’t just about wellness and curing illness anymore. It is also a central resource facilitating lifestyle enablement and the fulfillment of subjective personal desires. Cosmetic surgery — as distinguished from restorative procedures — is an obvious example.

Jared Kushner, the Transhumanist in the White House

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 26, 2022}

Jared Kushner might have used The Transhumanist in the White House as the title for his new memoir.

Two Tales from the Euthanasia Dystopia

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 25, 2022}

Euthanasia is showing its fangs in places such as Canada and Spain.

Pro-Abortion MDs Want Media to Cancel Pro-Life Voices

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 16, 2022}

The media already mostly ignores anti-assisted-suicide voices in its biased reporting on that issue. Now, Physicians for Reproductive Health — an organization of pro-abortion medical and non-medical activists — is pushing the media to ban all pro-life voices from its reporting on abortion. From the organization’s open letter to the media, “Stop Giving Airtime to Anti-Abortion Extremists“: We are writing today with a big request: stop giving air-time to anti-abortion activists. As the undersigned over 600 providers of abortion care, people who have had abortions and will have abortions, abortion advocates, and individuals who work with the media regularly, we could not be more concerned for the safety and well-being of our communities, in part because of the …

Episcopal Church Endorses ‘Gender-Affirming’ Mutilations of Children

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 12, 2022}

The Episcopal Church has endorsed “gender-affirming care” at all ages, including mastectomies and “bottom” surgeries that sterilize and cause sexual dysfunction. From the Episcopal House of Deputies Resolution: Resolved, that the 80th General Convention calls for the Episcopal Church to advocate for access to gender affirming care in all forms (social, medical, or any other) and at all ages as part of our Baptismal call to “respect the dignity of every human being”; and be it furtherResolved, that the 80th General Convention affirms that all Episcopalians should be able to partake in gender affirming care with no restriction on movement, autonomy, or timing; and be it furtherResolved, that the 80th General Convention understands that the protection …

About Those ‘Synthetic Embryos’

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 9, 2022}

Israeli researchers appear to have created what they are calling “synthetic mouse embryos,” using embryonic stem cells — without fertilization — and developed them about halfway through a normal mouse period of gestation.

Pro-Abortion Absolutism and Its Consequences

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 8, 2022}

By rejecting the crucial moral principle that human life has inherent value simply and merely because it is human, abortion absolutism undercuts the West’s self-definition as a moral society.

10,000+ Canadian Euthanasia Killings in 2021

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 3, 2022}

Canada has gone all in for euthanasia, and it is going to get worse now that the “strict guidelines to protect against abuse” — in the movement’s parlance — have expanded to people with chronic and disabling conditions, and will soon expand to those with dementia and mental illnesses.

Roe v. Wade Was a Profound Disservice to the Country

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 2, 2022}

Like the abolitionists, anti-child labor campaigners, the civil rights movement, women’s suffrage, temperance, anti-war activism, feminism, gay rights, labor union organizing, and so forth, in bringing the country to this portentous moment, pro-life campaigners acted in the grand tradition of social activism that has been a hallmark of the American experience.

U.K. Transgender Clinic to Close after Damning Report: ‘Not Safe’ for Children

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 28, 2022}

As the Biden administration continues to try to use its regulatory powers to force a “gender-affirming” approach to children who question their sex, in other countries the rubber-stamping of a gender-dysphoric child’s belief and the prescribing of puberty-blocking drugs are under serious reconsideration. The U.K., Sweden, Finland, and France — not exactly Bible Belt countries — are all pulling back from the rush to transition children. Now, in the U.K., the Tavistock Gender Clinic — run by the National Health Service — is being shut down because it is not safe for children. From the Daily Mail story: The NHS‘s controversial child transgender clinic will shut its doors after a damning report found it was ‘not safe’ for …

Stifling Food Production in the Name of Saving the Planet

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 27, 2022}

Global warming hysteria now has some governments forcing cuts in the use of nitrogen fertilizers to “save the planet.” But that will mean less food for hungry people and collapsing farm economies.

Scientists are Destroying Our Trust in Science

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 26, 2022}

The harm done to science by fraudsters, data manipulation, sloppy peer review, ideological bias, and outright lying by public scientific spokespersons cannot be overstated. There’s only one cure to the current malaise: unremitting and apolitical scientific excellence.

California’s Proposed Constitutional Amendment Would Guarantee Right to Abortion through Ninth Month

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 19, 2022}

The California legislature has placed a proposal on the November ballot that would elevate and expand the existing legality of abortion to a state constitutional right.

Local ‘Water Rights’ Law Invalidated in Florida

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 14, 2022}

I have written here previously of several attempts to enact “nature rights” kinds of laws, specifically targeting water, in the State of Florida. The threat became so real — with Orange County passing a “rights of water” ordinance — that a law was enacted at the state level prohibiting granting rights to nature.

‘Human Evolution’ Is a Misnomer

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 10, 2022}

A new study claims that “natural selection” is making society more unequal because it is favoring those with poorer education and lower earnings.

Don’t Fall for “Conservative” Pitch to Legalize Hard Drugs

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 7, 2022}

We know that radical left-wing subversives want to legalize hard drugs. So do some libertarians—which is a polite word for social Darwinism. But conservatives generally oppose legalization, understanding the devastating social costs and personal dissipation that hard drug abuse causes to families, communities, and individuals who would be tempted to imbibe by the lack of potential legal consequence.