Articles by Wesley J. Smith
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1.2KGuest ColumnMedical journal: Encouraging people to have children is ‘eerily reminiscent’ of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
(National Review) Cratering birth rates are threatening a “demographic winter,” according to a recent Wall Street Journal story, causing government leaders to...
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1.2KGuest ColumnNormalizing assisted suicide will lead to a ‘duty to die’
(National Review) Euthanasia isn’t really about compassion but fear of decline and a loathing of dependency — and of those experiencing them....
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1.4KGuest ColumnSomeone should remind the media there are no ‘throw-away people,’ and suicide is bad
(National Review) Politico has published a long story about a big-time political consultant named Hal Malchow who is flying to Switzerland to...
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2.2KGuest ColumnBioethics journal argues pregnancy is a ‘disease’ like the measles
(National Review) The Journal of Medical Ethics is one of the preeminent bioethics journals in the world. So, when an article appears...
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1.1KGuest ColumnCanada study shows push for organ donation after euthanasia
(National Review) A little good news: Legalizing euthanasia for the mentally ill in Canada has been pushed back again, not because authorities...
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1.2KAnalysisBioethicist says Arizona bill could legalize assisted suicide by starvation
(National Review) The euthanasia movement is continually looking for new ways to allow people to be made dead. One of the cruelest...
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2.6KGuest ColumnMass aborting of babies with Down syndrome amounts to eugenics
(National Review) The New York Times’ “The Ethicist” column this week features a would-be father asking if prenatal testing for conditions such as Down...
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647Guest ColumnHow ‘medical aid in dying’ became the euphemism of choice for assisted suicide
(National Review) The word engineering never stops, does it? When radical policies are proposed, the first step is to change the lexicon...
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1.2KGuest ColumnAbortion is necessary to avoid strain on health care, argues medical journal
(National Review) The legalization of euthanasia and abortion means that some members of the medical profession have become more than willing to...
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1.4KGuest ColumnAssisted suicides not counted among CDC’s reported suicide statistics
(National Review) 2021 was among the worst years ever for suicides in the U.S., with 2022 looking to have been even worse. According...
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2.3KAnalysisThe World Medical Association subtly eviscerates conscience rights
(National Review) The World Medical Association has published a revised “International Code of Medical Ethics” that is intended as “a canon of...
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1.6KGuest ColumnUN Human Rights Council makes stunning claim about ‘racial discrimination’
(National Review) The vaunted international community is determined to impose extremely politically progressive policies on the entire world. Alas, this even includes...
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1.4KGuest ColumnBioethicists claim euthanasia is acceptable for ‘unjust social conditions’
(National Review) Once killing the sufferer becomes a societally acceptable means for ending suffering, there becomes no end to the “suffering” that...
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1.8KGuest ColumnWashington Post promotes suicide death of man who died by self-starvation
(National Review) We aren’t an anti-suicide culture anymore. Oh, sure. We bemoan those of veterans and teenagers — still — but the...
