Posted by Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC | Jul 2, 2012
A neglected patient in the UK was so thirsty, he called the police to get water — who were turned away by the hospital. The man died. From the Daily Mail story: A desperate hospital patient who died of thirst after he was...
Read MorePosted by Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC | Jul 1, 2012
I don’t even see why this is controversial. An anorexic woman was refusing to eat in the UK–and a judge has ordered her force fed. From the court ruling: E is a 32-year-old woman who suffers from extremely severe anorexia...
Read MorePosted by Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC | Jun 29, 2012
Ah, the heady days of trying to overcome the evil BUSH!’s minor embryonic stem cell funding restrictions. You know, the ones that resulted in hundreds of millions spent in human embryonic stem cell research. Back in those...
Read MorePosted by Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC | Jun 26, 2012
I have been fighting euthanasia since 1993. During that time, I have been startled at what resonates emotionally with people about doctor-prescribed/administered death, and those matters which are generally shrugged off as of...
Read MorePosted by Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC | Jun 26, 2012
It is a disturbing sign of the times that Princeton’s notorious bioethicist Peter Singer has been awarded Australia’s highest civic award “for eminent service to philosophy and bioethics as a leader of public...
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