Posted by Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC | Jul 9, 2012
Once a society accepts the fundamental premises of assisted suicide — e.g., radical individualism and killing as an acceptable answer to suffering — there really are no brakes. Switzerland more than aptly...
Read MorePosted by Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC | Jul 9, 2012
Eugenics is alive in well in the ongoing search and destroy mission seeking to wipe people with Down syndrome and other genetic anomalies off the face of the earth. In New Zealand, the government apparently is so overt in its...
Read MorePosted by Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC | Jul 8, 2012
Palliative sedation is a legitimate form of pain control that is required in only very rare cases. But death squad medicine advocates seek to use it as a way of making people die by putting them in comas and then denying food...
Read MorePosted by Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC | Jul 5, 2012
A sign of the times. From the San Francisco Chronicle’s “Public Eavesdropping” feature in Leah Garchik’s column: “The doctor takes an egg from the mom, pokes a hole in it, puts a seed from the dad...
Read MorePosted by Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC | Jul 4, 2012
Lately, I have been pondering the increasing use of medicinal means to achieve what are essentially non “medical” ends, by which I mean, using the knowledge of medicine to promote lifestyle agendas and fulfill what I...
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