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Wesley J. Smith

Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism and a consultant to the Patients Rights Council. In May 2004, Smith was named one of the nation’s premier thinkers in bioengineering by the National Journal because of his work in bioethics. In 2008, the Human Life Foundation named him a Great Defender of Life.


Euthanasia Poisons People and Societies

19 Mar 2024
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  In my first-ever anti-euthanasia article, published in Newsweek in 1993, I described the suicide of my friend Frances, who killed herself under the influence of the euthanasia-promoting Hemlock Society (since rechristened Compassion and Choices). Toward the end of the...
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BOOKNOTES: ETHICS IN THE REAL WORLD: 90 ESSAYS ON THINGS THAT MATTER

21 Dec 2023
  ETHICS IN THE REAL WORLD: 90 ESSAYS ON THINGS THAT MATTER Peter Singer (with some essays co-authored) (Princeton University Press, 2023, 488 pp., $18.95) Reviewed by Wesley Smith _______________________________________________ The Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer is one...
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Symposium: Where Do We Go from Dobbs?

19 Apr 2023
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    This October we will hold our 20th Great Defender of Life dinner, and soon after commence celebrating our 50th anniversary year. We are grateful to have outlived Roe, but the question today is: Where does the pro-life movement go from here? While saving unborn...
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How Assisted Suicide Advocacy Overturned Roe v. Wade

23 Mar 2023
  Back in the 1990s, noting the success of abortion rights advocacy in the federal courts, the assisted-suicide movement moved to circumvent the democratic process by convincing the United States Supreme Court to impose an assisted suicide Roe v. Wade: a decision that would...
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Jared Kushner, the Transhumanist in the White House

10 Feb 2023
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  [Wesley Smith is an author and a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism. This article was published August 22, 2022, on National Review Online (www.nationalreview.com). ©2022 by National Review. Reprinted by permission.]...
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Assisted Suicide Implicated in Suicide Crisis

26 Sep 2022
Suicides are now at crisis levels. The number of people who kill themselves in the United States has risen 30 percent since 2000. Indeed, so great is the number that, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), suicide has become one of the country’s leading...
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Covid’s Totalitarian Temptation

24 May 2022
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  The Covid pandemic unleashed a soft totalitarianism in healthcare policy and bioethical advocacy that may not abate with the decline in infections and deaths from the pandemic. In this essay I will explore why the arrival of a modern plague created conditions that allowed...
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LOSING OUR DIGNITY: HOW SECULARIZED MEDICINE IS UNDERMINING FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN EQUALITY

11 Apr 2022
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___________________________________________________ LOSING OUR DIGNITY: HOW SECULARIZED MEDICINE IS UNDERMINING FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN EQUALITY Charles C. Camosy (Hyde Park, NY: New City Press, 2021, paperback, 224 pp., $22.95) Reviewed by Wesley J. Smith...
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Defeating Technocracy Is Crucial to Life

04 Mar 2021
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  Pro-life advocacy and policies are implacably opposed by the elites of the West. The United Nations promotes abortion access as an international norm. Leaders of the European Union continually criticize and attempt to stifle prolife laws in Poland and Hungary.1 All of the...
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2015: A Watershed Year for the Pro-life Movement

20 Jan 2016
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INTRODUCTION “…it’s hard to imagine our ever getting to a culture of life without underscoring the sheer miracle wrapped up in a baby.”— William McGurn As we prepared to mark January 22, 2016, the 43rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we decided to ask pro-life leaders and thinkers to...
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