Patient autonomy is fast becoming a one-way street. Choose to die by refusing life-sustaining treatment–sacrosanct! Want to live with life-sustaining treatment? Not your call. I recently helped successfully fight an attempt in...
Read MoreVermont seems poised to enact assisted suicide into state law. For the first three years, it will be a law with even fewer “protective guidelines” than the ephemeral Oregon rules. Then, the guidelines sunset and...
Read MoreSuicide is suicide. One would think that truth, at least, would not be a matter of controversy. But from its inception, the euthanasia movement has sought to advance the cause by redefining terms and blurring crucial ethical and...
Read MoreI often say that if you want to see where and how society will next go wrong, just look at the articles on ethics and culture currently being published in the world’s top medical and bioethics journals. Latest case in...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC I predicted the outcome in my annual predictions: VT has killed the assisted suicide bill. From the Burlington Free Press story: For nearly two hours Thursday afternoon,...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Vermont is San Francisco as a state, and thus it always bears watching when its part time legislature is in session. First, as I predicted, Vermont did not legalize...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC American assisted suicide activists pretend that legalization is to be strictly controlled. But the legislation they propose — and the laws they pass — contain...
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