Articles by Wesley J. Smith
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1.8KAnalysisWashington pushes bill to let non-doctors participate in assisted suicide
(National Review) When selling the legalization of assisted suicide, activists always promise that strict guidelines will protect against abuse. After legalization, these...
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2.1KGuest ColumnCanadian hospice to be shuttered for refusing to participate in euthanasia
(National Review) I have written here before about Delta Hospice in British Columbia, which has been under unremitting pressure by the government...
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2.1KAnalysisCanada is now pressuring medical schools to teach euthanasia
(National Review) You knew it would come to this. The push is on in Canada to persuade medical schools to teach students...
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1.3KGuest ColumnDoctor promoting assisted suicide uses ‘sick, suicidal people as human guinea pigs’
(National Review) How in the tank for assisted suicide are the media? This much. A headline in the Mercury News about assisted...
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5.8KAnalysisCanada is euthanizing people for loneliness and emotional distress
(National Review) Good grief. We are told that euthanasia is “compassion.” But how compassionate is it when last year in Canada, hundreds...
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2.0KGuest ColumnPro-euthanasia group is heavily promoting assisted suicide to people of color
(National Review) Over the years, I have repeatedly noted that the assisted-suicide movement is a “Marin County” movement — well-off, well-tailored white people...
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2.8KGuest ColumnExpert: The controversial gene editing of preborn children must be stopped
(National Review) When a scientist in China proudly announced the birth of the first germ-line genetically engineered babies — meaning the alterations would...
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4.1KGuest ColumnNon-terminally ill UK man kept in a coma and denied food and water has died
LAN UPDATE, 6/12/2020: A 34-year-old man known only as MSP in the U.K. has died after a High Court judge ruled he...
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1.8KGuest ColumnIs Canada pressuring hospice workers to participate in assisted suicide?
(National Review) Should hospice professionals be forced to assist the suicides of their patients who want to die? Not too long ago,...
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6.1KAnalysisHORRIFYING: Canada wants to partner organ harvesting with euthanasia
(National Review) My very first anti-euthanasia column, published in Newsweek, warned that societal acceptance of assisted suicide/euthanasia would eventually include organ harvesting “as...
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1.7KGuest ColumnNew York Times writer publishes ‘thinly veiled call’ for normalizing ‘elder suicide’
(National Review) We can always count on the New York Times to promote destructive public policies and social agendas. In the latest example,...
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3.0KAnalysisTragic: Ohio Nurses Association endorses legalizing assisted suicide
(National Review) Talk about missing the forest for the trees! The Ohio Nurses Association, a union with 11,000 members, has endorsed legalizing assisted...
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2.3KGuest Column‘Medicare-for-All’ would erase conscience protections for doctors
(National Review) I just published a detailed article here deconstructing the “Medicare for All Act of 2019” — which is actually much closer...
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3.1K8Human RightsDiscrimination against people with disabilities continues
How can we allow people with profound disabilities to be denigrated as “skin bags” or as mere flora?
