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^{Wesley J. Smith
August 2, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Brit Baby’s Death Ruled Better Than Small Chance of Living — Again

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 2, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Readers may recall the Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans cases from the U.K. — in which doctors both wanted to remove life support and prevent the children from being transferred to other hospitals willing to continue care. Because the law in the U.K. permits courts to decide the “best interests” of children in medical extremis, the MDs got their way. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
January 18, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Washington Bill to Let Non-Doctors Participate in Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 18, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

When selling the legalization of assisted suicide, activists always promise that strict guidelines will protect against abuse. Read More ›

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^{Wesley J. Smith
December 31, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

The Euthanasia Cancer Spreads

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 31, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

The West is tearing itself apart. The symptoms are evident in our bitterly divided politics and the attempts to punish those with heterodox views. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
September 17, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

Assisted Suicide is Never a Treatment for Mental Illness

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 17, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

Addressing the UK's All-Party Parliamentary Pro-Life Group, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley Smith said that activists and pressure groups often use fear, in particular fear-mongering on the difficulties of death, to push through their agenda. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
April 17, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

The Jack Kevorkian Plague

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 17, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

^{Discovery Institute
October 17, 2016
Discovery Institute, Human Exceptionalism}

First Child Dies Under Belgium’s Euthanasia Law

_{Discovery Institute
October 17, 2016
Discovery Institute, Human Exceptionalism}

Writing at First Things, Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith discusses the alarming first case of child euthanasia in Belgium. Belgium is the only country to have legalized physician-assisted suicide for children of any age. Read more from Wesley J. Smith at First Things.

^{Wesley J. Smith
September 2, 2016
Human Exceptionalism}

The Dangers of Abandoning the Terminally Ill in Suicide Prevention

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 2, 2016
Human Exceptionalism}

Have you noticed that suicide prevention campaigns these days don’t mention assisted suicide? Perhaps they don’t want to court controversy, or perhaps organizers have swallowed the notion that the suicide of the terminally ill isn’t really suicide—it’s “death with dignity.” Whatever the reason, this crucial lapse of proffered care illustrates how our society is less concerned about the suicides of Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
September 21, 2009
Human Exceptionalism}

A Myth Is as Good as a Mile

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 21, 2009
Human Exceptionalism}

The assisted-suicide movement has come a long way in just a couple of decades. Consider, for example, this recent item from the San Francisco Chronicle: “Charlotte Shultz [the wife of former secretary of state George Shultz] accepted the invitation to be honorary co- chair (with Dianne Feinstein) at a Nov. 5 luncheon and program for Compassion & Choices of Northern Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
November 5, 2008
Human Exceptionalism}

What We Are Becoming

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 5, 2008
Human Exceptionalism}

I am having trouble keeping up: Every day now almost, it is one once unthinkable thing after another. In the UK, a woman tried to commit suicide by swallowing anti-freeze, and doctors refused to save her! From the story: Kerrie Wooltorton arrived fully conscious in hospital clutching a ‘living will’ in which she stated she did not want to be Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
June 4, 2008
Human Exceptionalism}

Assisted Suicide and the Corruption of Palliative Care

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 4, 2008
Human Exceptionalism}

For the past two decades, euthanasia/assisted-suicide ideologues have worked overtime to conflate palliative carethe medical alleviation of pain and other distressing symptoms of serious illnesswith intentionally ending the life of the patient. The movements first target was the hospice, a specialized form of care for the dying created forty years ago in the United Kingdom by the late, great medical Read More ›