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African American man in a hospital bed.
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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 ›
Mature female in elderly care facility gets help from hospital personnel nurse. Close up of aged wrinkled hands of senior woman. Grand mother everyday life.
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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 ›
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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 ›

Wesley J. Smith
December 11, 2018
Human Exceptionalism

Euthanasia Zealots Push Starvation as ‘Death with Dignity’

Wesley J. Smith
December 11, 2018
Human Exceptionalism

It’s getting very dark in euthanasia-land. Not content with legalizing assisted suicide for the terminally ill in six states plus the District of Columbia — with Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Colombia allowing lethal jab euthanasia — and unsatiated with Switzerland’s suicide clinics to which people from around the world attend — the so-called “death with dignity” movement now is pushing self-starvation as a splendid way to die. Read More ›

Wesley J. Smith
October 23, 2018
Human Exceptionalism

Transhumanist Bill of Wrongs

Wesley J. Smith
October 23, 2018
Human Exceptionalism

Transhumanists have seen the future and it is authoritarian. More specifically, it is both authoritarian and anti-human. To make matters even worse, transhumanism would coercively bankrupt the world economy. Beyond that, it’s a pipe dream that threatens venerable Western values. What’s not to like? For those who may not know, transhumanism is an increasingly influential futuristic social movement that flowed Read More ›

Wesley J. Smith
September 17, 2018
Human Exceptionalism

A Gruesome Plan

Wesley J. Smith
September 17, 2018
Human Exceptionalism

The Hippocratic Oath is dead. “Do no harm” medicine is fast becoming extinct. Contemporary health care is increasingly under the sway of a utilitarian bioethics that makes the elimination of suffering the prime directive—to the detriment of traditional standards of medical morality that deem all human life equally worthy of care and protection. The prestigious New England Journal of Medicine has been …