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Should Medical Associations Be Allowed to Sanction Physicians for Participating in Executions? by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics I have long marveled at the adamant efforts of many bioethicists and physician leaders to prevent doctors from participating in executions--while, ironically some of these sam ... Read on »

Calgary Cataract Wait Shows Peril of Nationalized Health Care by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics I once supported a single payer health care plan for the USA and considered Canada to be the ideal model. I changed my mind after I went on a speaking gig to Ontario and the l ... Read on »

A Few More Photos of Pescadero, Plus by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics I have been asked in repeated communications to post a few more photos from my recent short R and R to Pescadero. It only takes one, if that! So, here is an encore: These wer ... Read on »

Obama Calls for "Conscience Clause" Rights While His Administration Destroys Existing Conscience... by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics President Obama spoke at Notre Dame today, an invitation that created divisions within the Catholic Church that are beyond our scope or concern here. But in reading about the ... Read on »

The Beauty of the Pescadero, California by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Secondhand Smokette and I needed to get away and relax: So, we escaped to a coast town south of San Francisco called Pescadero for a night of Bed and Breakfast. I have a new c ... Read on »

Oklahoma Legislature Votes Unanimously to Outlaw All Human Cloning by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Oklahoma's Legislature has voted unanimously to outlaw all human cloning from the state, and prohibit the importation of the product of human cloning. From the story: Legislat ... Read on »

More Final Exit Network Busts--This Time, for Manslaughter by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Final Exit Network was strongly suspected of assisting the suicide of Jana Van Voorhis, a severely mentally ill woman in Phoenix. The MSM ignored the story, but it was pushed ... Read on »

Still Time to Sign Up for "Never Again" International Anti-Euthanasia/Assisted Suicide Symposium by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics The date is fast approaching for the Second International Symposium on Assisted Suicide being held at the National Convention Center near Dulles Airport in Virginia on May 29- ... Read on »

Gallup Poll: Majority of Americans Now "Pro Life" by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics A few weeks ago I posted about a surprising Pew Poll that reported a dramatic shift toward the pro life position on abortion in the last year. Now the respected Gallup Poll ha ... Read on »

Pushing Health Care Rationing by Misdirection by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics I have noticed lately that the political left, which most supports health care rationing (and which, ironically, yells the loudest about HMO care restrictions), argues disinge ... Read on »

Dueling Texas Futile Care Bills Once Again Cause Gridlock by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics I wrote earlier about my worry that two competing bills filed in Texas about the state's discriminatory futile care law--one to put on a few bows of surface reform, the other ... Read on »

SHS Funnies by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Once we have national health insurance, the Death Angel will be given a medal instead. Read on »

Changes Coming to SHS by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics In the next few weeks, if all goes according to plan, you will notice some changes around here at SHS. My site will be added to the First Things family of blogs, which should ... Read on »

Mother "Sacrifices" Herself: Delays Cancer Treatment to Have Her Child by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics This is a sad but glorious story of selfless maternal/paternal love, but I think that at one time, it would have been the expected course: A doctor recounts the decision of a ... Read on »

No Girls Allowed! Sweden Okays Gender Eugenic Abortion by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Abortion was supposed to liberate women and protect them from unwanted pregnancies. But with prenatal testing and all, it is increasingly being used as a eugenic search and de ... Read on »

Hyenas are People Too by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Human exceptionalism is under furious assault on many fronts, with advocates who seek to dismantle it, zealously looking for any and every sign that we are no different, reall ... Read on »

Fetal Farming Research Ongoing in Animals by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics I have oft asserted that the embryonic stem cell debate is not the far end of the instrumental use of unborn humans, but the launching pad. Once the principle is established t ... Read on »

Human Skin "Art" to Hang Someday in Australian National Gallery? by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics A tattooed man plans to donate his skin to the Australian National Gallery when he dies. From the story: An Australian man whose body is covered in tattoos has pledged to dona ... Read on »

Adult Stem Cells Used to Prevent Tumors in ESCR by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics This gets a bit complicated: In mice, scientists used adult stem cells to prevent embryonic stem cells used to treat spinal cord injury from forming tumors. From the story: Tr ... Read on »

Michael Barone on how Global Warming is Becoming Religion by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics When science becomes ideology or quasi-religion, it ceases to be science and becomes something else. The brilliant political analyst Michael Barone has weighed in on this conc ... Read on »

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