Posted by Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC | Jun 26, 2014
Disability rights activists are, generally speaking, part of the Democratic coalition. They also, generally speaking, are the country’s most effective opponents of assisted suicide. I hope my disability rights activist friends...
Read MorePosted by Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC | Jun 25, 2014
A Dutch report shows that Alzheimer’s disease will cause more deaths soon than lung cancer. From the story: Dementia will be the biggest cause of death in the Netherlands by 2030, overtaking lung cancer, the public health...
Read MorePosted by Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC | Jun 24, 2014
A Virgnia plea deal is coercing a man into a vasectomy. From the CBS story: A Virginia man who has fathered children with several women has agreed to get a vasectomy to reduce his prison term by up to five years in a child...
Read MorePosted by Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC | Jun 23, 2014
The invaluable Patients Rights Council (for whom I am a paid consultant) has published a badly needed fact sheet on the newest craze in suicide advocacy–voluntary self starvation/dehydration–known in death promoting parlance as...
Read MorePosted by Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC | Jun 19, 2014
A news story reports that Jahi McMath, declared dead by the State of California, is being maintained at a Catholic hospital in New Jersey. More, that she may be becoming responsive. From the San Jose Mercury News story: KPIX...
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