May 2010

Collapse of Decency: Murder Your Daughter — Be the Subject of Rock and Roll Song

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC What is it with our cultural leaders these days? Jack Kevorkian wanted to engage in human vivisection, he murdered Thomas Youk, and is rewarded with a biopic starring Al Pacino as Kevorkian and receives $50 K a speech. Now, Robert Latimer, who murdered his 12-year-old […]

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eggsploitation ::: summer 2010

The infertility industry in the United States has grown to a multi-billion dollar business. What is its main commodity? Human eggs. Young women all over the world are solicited by ads — via college campus bulletin boards, social media, online classifieds — offering up to $100,000 for their “donated” eggs, to “help make someone’s dream […]

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eggsploitation ::: summer 2010

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It’s Now Official: UK Prosecutor Legalizes Assisted Suicide by Loved Ones

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Shameful. The UK prosecutors have placed disabled, dying, and chronically ill suicidal people at tremendous risk by refusing to prosecute a clear case of assisted suicide. From the story: A loving husband who helped his seriously ill wife commit suicide will not face legal action […]

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Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues Not Interested in Deep Discourse, “Shadow” Bioethics Council Will Be

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC The current First Things (June/July 2010) has an important article by Eric Cohen and Yuval Levin — both of whom were staffers on the President’s Council on Bioethics under Leon Kass. They note that President Obama has profoundly downplayed bioethics in his presidency so far […]

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Synthetic Life Concerns Primarily About Safety — For Now

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Just because we can do something in science, that doesn’t mean we should do it. That verity should be kept in mind as we ponder the news that scientists have created an artificial bacterium using synthetic genes. From the story: Scientists in the US have […]

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Belgium Euthanasia: Going Up and Under Reported

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC This is what happens when a country jumps off a vertical moral cliff. First, the euthanasia numbers are climbing dramatically. From the story: Last year, 700 official cases of euthanasia were reported. The figure is 40 percent up on the year before, as 2008 only […]

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Stealth Legislation to Federally Fund Human Cloning

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Embryonic stem cells aren’t much in the news these days. President Bush’s embryonic stem cell funding restrictions are history and the invention of induced pluripotent stem cells may allow scientists to obtain the benefits of embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos. But that doesn’t mean […]

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Stealth Legislation to Federally Fund Human Cloning

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Embryonic stem cells aren’t much in the news these days. President Bush’s embryonic stem cell funding restrictions are history and the invention of induced pluripotent stem cells may allow scientists to obtain the benefits of embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos. Continue Reading at CBC-Network.org […]

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Nearly as Many Life Terminations Without Consent as Voluntary Euthanasia Deaths in Flanders

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Flemish doctors not only admit to killing patients who have not requested to be euthanized, but the levels of such terminations without request or consent are barely under the rate of legal voluntary euthanasia. From the study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (may […]

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“The Humanist Case Against Euthanasia”

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Pro assisted suiciders often claim that the only reasons to oppose euthanasia/self mercy killing are religious. They will claim that opponents see suffering as “redemptive” and thus desirable–intentionally misstating that doctrine– and oppose mercy killing on the basis that only God can take a life. […]

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Compassion and Choices In No Place to Judge Online Suicide Assistance

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC There is an awful story about a suicide obsessed man named William F. Melchert-Dinkel, who allegedly helped counsel and teach the suicidal–including a Canadian college girl–to do the deed over the Internet. He has been criminally charged with assisting suicide in two cases. From the […]

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Compassion and Choices Uses Murder/Suicide For Political Advantage

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC I was going to post about this case — in which a husband with cancer murdered his wife with Alzheimer’s disease, and then killed himself — because the political opportunists at the assisted suicide advocacy group Compassion and Choices decided to exploit the case to […]

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Biological Colonialism: Ignoring The Exploitation of Women in “Rent a Womb” Contracts in India

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Human exceptionalism demands that human equals be treated with equal respect regardless of their economic circumstances. This means, as just one example, implacable opposition to slavery and human trafficking. It also means opposing using the poor and destitute as biological resources, such as through kidney […]

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Obsession With Radically Extending Longevity Could Hurt Society

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC I am not a big believer that science will extend the normal human lifespan anytime soon–if ever. But I find it interesting that the transhumanist idea of immortality has caught on in some influential circles, with some insisting that the prevention of aging is a […]

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Proper Palliative Sedation Not Same as Assisted Suicide’s “Terminal Sedation”

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC The assisted suicide movement is ever about blurring vital distinctions and deconstructing crucial definitions. One target has been the proper pain control technique known as palliative sedation, a rarely required procedure in which patients near death are sedated to control pain or other symptoms such […]

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“Duty to Die” an Extension of Buy, Use, and Throw Away Consumer Culture?

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC I am not a big fan of Thomas Sowell, but I think his most recent column is right on. It is about the purported “duty to die” that some are attempting to foist on society (rationing, futile care theory, etc.). He notes that the agenda […]

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The Lexicon of Transhumanism Isn’t the Movement’s Problem

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC It’s been awhile since I checked on the latest anti humanism pitched by the transhumanism propagandist, J. Hughes. He has apparently decided that the usual buzz words used to promote the movement–the notion that we should “seize control of human evolution” (as if we have […]

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