Articles by Wesley J. Smith
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956Guest 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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1.1KGuest 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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2.0KAnalysisThe 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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1.3KGuest 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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1.1KGuest 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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1.4KGuest 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...
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1.9KGuest ColumnNew Canadian children’s book tries to convince kids that euthanasia is acceptable
(National Review) Children are being indoctrinated into everything that subverts traditional values these days, and in Canada that includes bringing children along...
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1.4KGuest ColumnVermont legalizes assisted suicide by Zoom or Skype, with no prior doctor-patient meeting
(National Review) Remember when we were told that assisted suicide would only be engaged in as part of an intimate and long-term...
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6.4KGuest ColumnHORRIFIC: New report reveals China kills prisoners by forcibly harvesting their organs
(National Review) China has been reliably and repeatedly accused of killing Falun Gong and other political prisoners for their organs. Now, a paper just published in...
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2.7KGuest ColumnNew California bill’s wording appears to allow infanticide by neglect
(National Review) A little while ago I highlighted a shocking Maryland bill that would essentially decriminalize neglecting an infant to death in the “perinatal”...
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9.3KGuest ColumnHORRIFIC: Maryland bill would decriminalize infanticide up to 28 days after birth
(National Review) Remember when former Virginia governor Ralph Northam blessed the right of a mother and her doctor to “have a conversation” and decide...
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1.8KGuest ColumnBioethicist defends infanticide, claiming there is no difference between born and preborn babies
(National Review) The core problem with contemporary bioethics is that the movement denies human exceptionalism. In this view, being human is morally...
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Assisted suicide now being promoted for people with anorexia
(National Review) The push is now on to allow assisted suicide for psychiatric patients. The Journal of Eating Disorders has published a piece urging...
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2.9KGuest ColumnSHOCK: 10% of all babies who die in northern Belgium are euthanized
(National Review) Belgium has no age limit for its euthanasia. Now, a letter published in a British Medical Journal publication reports that...
