euthanasia

^{Wesley J. Smith
October 21, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Anti-Conscience Mandates Force Doctors to Violate Their Religious Beliefs

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 21, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Compelling doctors to hew to secular cultural values in their practice of medicine is both authoritarian and un-American. If the anti-medical conscience campaign succeeds, we will all be the poorer for it. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
August 21, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Bioethicist: Let Doctors Kill the Healthy by Harvesting Organs

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 21, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

We have entered the era of what I call “do harm medicine,” in which the concept of what constitutes harming the patient has become entirely malleable and subjective. I even wrote a book covering that subject. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
May 26, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

AMA Helps Normalize Organ Harvesting after Euthanasia

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 26, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Organ harvesting after euthanasia has become so normalized within the medical intellegentsia, that an American Medical Association publication, JAMA Surgery, had a letter debate — not about the propriety of killing and harvesting, but about whether the kill should begin at home or in a hospital. 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 ›

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^{Wesley J. Smith
October 1, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

Autonomy or Abandoning the Mentally Ill?

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 1, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

A U.K. woman with anorexia is in danger of starving to death and courts there will not allow force-feeding to save her life because she has decision-making capacity. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
July 6, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

The Deadly “Quality of Life” Ethic

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 6, 2020
Human Exceptionalism}

Something evil happened recently in Austin. Michael Hickson, a forty-six-year-old African-American man with quadriplegia and a serious brain injury, was refused treatment at St. David’s Hospital South Austin while ill with COVID-19. Read More ›

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

The Jack Kevorkian Plague

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

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^{Wesley J. Smith
September 27, 2019
Human Exceptionalism}

Congress Should Pass the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 27, 2019
Human Exceptionalism}

Unfortunately, the bill is opposed by some opponents of assisted suicide, people who are my friends and whom I respect for their commitment to defending the practice of ethical medicine. This makes no sense to me. The more confidence people have that their loved ones will be cared for properly through palliative and hospice techniques — as my mother was — the less they are likely to turn in desperation to support for assisted suicide. Indeed, euthanasia advocates engage in ubiquitous fearmongering to convince people that their binary choice is allowing assisted suicide or abandoning their loved ones to a potentially agonizing death. In this sense, public support for legalizing assisted suicide can be interpreted as a declaration of no confidence in the ability of doctors to properly care for people. Read More ›

^{Discovery Institute
April 22, 2019
Human Exceptionalism}

Wesley J. Smith Testifies Before Texas State Senate Against Futile Care

_{Discovery Institute
April 22, 2019
Human Exceptionalism}

Discovery Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith appeared before the Texas State Senate Committee on Health and Human Services to advocate in favor of SB2089. The purpose of the bill is to improve Texas’s medical futility provisions and to make end of life healthcare disputes between patients, providers, and their families cooperative rather coercive, which Smith currently believes to be the Read More ›