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Post Obama Health Care Power Grab America: Fantasy Land Advice About Being a Good Medical Consumer by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics In "Help for Navigating Health Care," San Francisco Chronicle reporter Victoria Colliver interviews a woman named Adrianna Boden, who had a difficult medical experience, and o ... Read on »

Power Grab: Shoving Health Care "Reform" Down Our Throats Without Democratic Debate by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics President Obama and the Democrats in Congress intend to completely change the health care system of the United States without permitting any meaningful democratic debate. Rath ... Read on »

Eureka! People Can Finally Die With Dignity as First Lethal Prescriptions Issued in Washington State by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics The assisted suicide movement is celebrating today as the first two lethal prescriptions have been written by death doctors in Washington State. From the story: Two prescripti ... Read on »

Lead Into Gold: "Protein Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells" Made Without Genetic Material by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics This is potentially huge: Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells, which permit tailor made, patient specific pluripotent stem cell lines to be created ethically without the use of emb ... Read on »

The Immoral Research That Would be Required to Make "Reproductive Cloning" Safe by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics In my last SHS post, I deconstructed the "ethical" objections of "the scientists" to reproductive cloning as really being about safety, not the inherent wrongness of human clo ... Read on »

Sound and "Ethical" Fury Against Human Cloning Signifying Nothing by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics I reported on the media falling for the latest, "I can clone a baby," publicity stunt yesterday. Now "the scientists" are weighing in an sputtering outrage. As usual, their "e ... Read on »

SHS Funnies by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Even the comics are becoming anti human: Read on »

Final Exit Network is a Death Cult by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics CBS has a story from the Final Exit Network training manual and it validates my every suspicion that the group is a death cult. From the story: The training manual provides a ... Read on »

WJS: Skunk at the Earth Day Party by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics As usual, I find myself the skunk at the party. As the world celebrates Earth Day, that term has become a bit ominous. Environmentalism is devolving into an increasingly anti- ... Read on »

Media Fall for "Cloning" Hype--Again! by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics How many times are the media going to act as Charlie Brown to would-be cloners' Lucy Van Pelt promising to hold the football? First it was the Raelians making utter and comple ... Read on »

Politicizing Science: How the UK Became Brave New Britain by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Please pardon this lengthy post, but in light of our recent conversations about the organismic status of the early embryo as biological human life, I thought it was worth disc ... Read on »

Animal Rights Activist Named to FBI "Most Wanted Terrorist List" by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics There is only one domestic suspected terrorist on the FBI's "most wanted terrorist." His name is Daniel Andreas San Diego, who hails from my neck of the woods in Berkeley, CA. ... Read on »

Too Much Sex Causes Global Warming! "Take Cold Showers," Scientist Advises by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics A famous global warming scientist issued an alarming study today finding that too much sex is a major cause of global warming. "All that heavy breathing releases tons of carbo ... Read on »

A Human Embryo is to the Baby He or She Becomes, That a Caterpillar is to the Butterfly It Becomes by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics It is an intentional tactic on the part of some who push for the instrumental use of nascent human life to make the sophistical argument that human embryos are not really orga ... Read on »

Nature Decries Attempts to Redefine "Embryo" by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Considering the discussions we have had here as to what constitutes a human embryo, I thought it worth revisiting an old Nature editorial that decries the sophistic attempt wi ... Read on »

Look Before We Leap: If We Are Not Careful, We Could All End Up WIth Rationed Health Care by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics The Oregon Department of Health is reporting that the recession will push more Oregonians than ever onto the Oregon Health Department's system of rationed care. From the press ... Read on »

Is the Governor of Virginia "Anti Science" Too? by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics This escaped my notice until it was brought to my attention by a regular SHS reader. Last month, Tim Kaine the Governor of Virginia, signed into law a bill that prohibits the ... Read on »

Opposing the Political Game, "Spin the Lexicon:" Nature Once Understood the Accurate Meaning of... by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics The science journal Nature pushes the brave new world agendas of cloning and embryonic stem cell research with gusto and zealotry. That is why I find the below quote from a 19 ... Read on »

British Scientists Tout Future Cure for Blindness with ESCs: What Would You Do If It Really Works? by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics The headline of this story from the Times of London--"Blind to be Cure with Stem Cells"--is really putting the cart before the horse--it hasn't even been tried yet, after all. ... Read on »

Pelosi Demagoguery and Political Hype About Embryonic Stem Cell Research by Wesley J. Smith Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Either Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi doesn't know what is actually happening in biotechnology or she doesn't care. Actually, I think it is both. The other day, she went in ... Read on »

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