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The Deadly Legacy of Eugenics

Wesley J. Smith
January 19, 2018
We’ve seen it happen: A new assault on the sanctity of human life appears—say, infanticide being promoted in a major bioethics journal, or officials in Iceland bragging that no children with Down syndrome are born there, thanks to prenatal genetic screening—and some horrified opponents … » Go
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Joseph Fletcher's Dark Dreams Becoming Our Reality

Wesley J. Smith
January 5, 2018
Joseph Fletcher (1905–1991) was one the most influential philosophers and bioethicists of the twentieth century. His advocacy blazed the path for many of the radical social transitions we are experiencing today. He gained fame as the prime proponent of “situational ethics,” popularly known as … » Go
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Trump is Letting Scientists Play God

Wesley J. Smith
December 22, 2017
President Donald J. Trump could care less about biotechnology. How else to explain his total failure to engage the most important and portentous biotechnological issues of our day? In fact, the Trump administration’s policy void on these issues is so complete the president hasn’t even taken the … » Go
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Self-Sacrificial Love in the Bioethics-Sphere

Wesley J. Smith
December 8, 2017
Kiss today goodbye And point me toward tomorrow. We did what we had to do. Won’t forget, can’t regret What I did for love. —A Chorus Line Imagine the pain. Imagine the sleepless nights. One minute you are leading an ordinary life. Then something awful happens to someone you love—a heart … » Go
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Berniecare's Medicaid for All

Wesley J. Smith
November 27, 2017
As the Republican effort to repeal and replace Obamacare withered on the vine, the self-described socialist senator from Vermont rushed to fill the political vacuum. Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for All Act of 2017 is a single-payer proposal that shamelessly attempts to harness the popularity of … » Go
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An AI Thanksgiving Proclamation

Wesley J. Smith
November 24, 2017
We live in metaphysically desolate times. An increasing number of us—particularly among the millennial generation—now reject Christianity and other non-materialistic faiths as superstitious relics, vestiges of a time before science uncovered the truth about existence. The less polite even mock … » Go
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Environmentalism's Worsening Anti-Human Infection

Wesley J. Smith
November 16, 2017
As I wrote in The War on Humans, environmentalism has become increasingly anti-human, both in proposed policies–such as those that would reduce economic vitality and thwart human thriving–and the goal of reducing human population. The latter goal would require particularly tyrannical … » Go
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Attacking the Ties that Bind

Wesley J. Smith
November 9, 2017
Like everyone else, I have been pondering the recent “senseless” slaughters in places as disparate as Sandy Hook, Las Vegas, and Sutherland Springs—atrocities in which lone sociopathic gunmen icily annihilated their fellow human beings, including babies and children, with all the moral … » Go
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A Right to the Baby WE WANT

Wesley J. Smith
October 27, 2017
Whenever I write about the underregulated multi-billion-dollar infertility industry, I receive anguished emails from women who can’t become pregnant, declaring that they “would do anything to have a baby.” I can certainly empathize with their sadness, but their willingness to do anything is … » Go
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Death Panels May Be Only Part of Obamacare to Die

Wesley J. Smith
October 23, 2017
Obamacare “repeal and replace” may have failed this year, but that doesn’t mean the Affordable Care Act can’t be significantly defanged. For example, there is still time to excise the Independent Payment Advisory Board from the law before it is up and running. IPAB’s stated purpose is to … » Go
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Fifteen Science Papers Retracted Over China Illegal Organ Harvesting

Wesley J. Smith
August 24, 2019
If you have enough money, need organ-transplant surgery, and are so immoral you are willing for a stranger to be killed so you can have their organs, you can travel to China and buy a liver, heart, or kidney. And you only have to wait maybe a month, you know, the time it takes to find a … » Go
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Chimpanzee Liberation? Why Animal Rights and Human Rights Cannot Coexist

Wesley J. Smith
August 17, 2019
We live in profoundly anti-human times. Progressive cultural movements across a broad array of issues, from bioethics to environmentalism, seek to push us off the pedestal of unique value in both culture and public policy. Many academics, biological scientists, and evolutionary philosophers … » Go
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NPR Discovers the “Nature Rights” Movement

Wesley J. Smith
August 9, 2019
While most people roll their eyes and laugh that “it can never happen here,” the “nature rights” movement is increasing in visibility and establishment acceptance. The journal Science has favored the concept. So too has liberal activist Jim Hightower. Now, that bastion of … » Go
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In Massachusetts Bill to Criminalize Suicide Encouragement, a Lethal Loophole

Wesley J. Smith
July 27, 2019
Assisted suicide and euthanasia corrupt everything, including the suicide-prevention sector. Here’s an example out of Massachusetts. A bill has been filed to make suicide persuasion and facilitation a crime. From SD 2505 (my emphases): A person shall be punished by imprisonment in the state … » Go
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Leveraging Environmentalism to Impose “Hegemonic” Marxism

Wesley J. Smith
July 24, 2019
Environmentalism is growing increasingly anti-capitalist and anti-human. Once the aim was directed primarily at preventing and cleaning up pollution, preserving ecosystems and protecting wild places. These days, the louder voices within the movement seem more intent on invoking global warming … » Go
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Slouching Toward a “Brave New World”

Wesley J. Smith
July 23, 2019
Genetic engineering is among the most powerful human technologies ever invented. It holds great hope for everything from medical uses to cleaning up the environment. But it could also unleash a deadly pandemic or lead to a “new eugenics” with very sharp teeth. The last time we witnessed … » Go
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Ohio Bans “Nature Rights”

Wesley J. Smith
July 20, 2019
Finally! After voters in Toledo granted “rights” to Lake Erie — in a special election, it should be noted, with minuscule turnout — Ohio has outlawed the enforcement of “nature rights” in a budget bill signed by the governor. From the legislation: Sec. 2305.011… (B) Nature or … » Go
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Will California Voters Be Stem-Cell Suckered Again?

Wesley J. Smith
July 3, 2019
Back in 2004, the university-biotech complex and its camp followers in the media and Hollywood convinced California voters to borrow $3 billion to establish the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). Its purpose was to pay for embryonic stem-cell and human-cloning research over … » Go
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Washington Post Boosts Elderly “Rational Suicide”

Wesley J. Smith
June 29, 2019
The media abandoned unequivocal opposition to suicide long ago. Most publications editorially support legalizing assisted suicide, and on the news side — as at the New York Times and the Associated Press — they have even gone so far as to run stories lauding suicide/euthanasia … » Go
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A Push for Licenses to Genetically Engineer Human Beings

Wesley J. Smith
June 27, 2019
“The scientists” claim that they can be trusted to “self-regulate” their efforts to create new biotechnologies. Baloney. Despite their mooing about adhering to ethical and safety protocols, two genetically altered babies have already been born, children who may have a higher mortality … » Go
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