personhood

^{Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council
December 30, 2008
Human Exceptionalism}

Are infants with disabilities disposable?

_{Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council
December 30, 2008
Human Exceptionalism}

This article, published by the Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith: “While personhood theory is not a unanimously held view among bioethicists, it is widely accepted, particularly among academics at the most elite institutions,” says Wesley J. Smith author of Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America. The rest of Read More ›

Legs of four teenagers sitting on a bricks wall

^{Wesley J. Smith
December 15, 2007
Human Exceptionalism}

Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 15, 2007
Human Exceptionalism}

If you are reading these words, you are a human being. That used to matter morally. Indeed, it was once deemed a self-evident truth that being a Homo Sapien created intrinsic moral value based simply and merely on being human — a principle sometimes called “human exceptionalism.” No more. Human exceptionalism is under unprecedented assault across a broad array of societal and intellectual fronts. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
September 16, 2002
Human Exceptionalism}

Life, Liberty, and a Mudhole to Lie In

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 16, 2002
Human Exceptionalism}

SOMETHING DISTURBING is happening in the Florida elections this fall. No, not the chance that Janet Reno will be the Democratic candidate for governor. A state initiative has qualified for the ballot letting voters decide whether to grant constitutional rights to pregnant pigs. On the surface, the issue is one of animal husbandry. In the interest of industrial efficiency, and Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
February 14, 2000
Human Exceptionalism}

The Death of Us

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 14, 2000
Human Exceptionalism}

The Definition of Death, Contemporary Controversies, edited by Stuart J. Youngner, Robert, M. Arnold, and Renie Schapiro. Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 346 pp., $ 54 In just thirty years, bioethics has grown from a group of ruminating philosophers and theologians into one of the country’s most fiercely secularized and influential intellectual forces. Bioethicists sit on presidential advisory commissions, teach in Read More ›