Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism, and consults for the Patients Rights Council.
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Wesley J. Smith
Recent studies suggest that in places where assisted suicide is legal, both assisted suicides and unassisted suicides increase. Continue Reading »
The transhumanist worldview and the Christian faith are incompatible. Continue Reading »
Religious freedom in the healthcare context is under concerted attack by the political left and liberal politicians. The crisis time for religious pluralism in the United States is fast approaching. Continue Reading »
If COVID becomes the excuse for government and Big Business to exert extreme control, even greater intrusions on civil liberties will surely follow. Continue Reading »
California’s hostility to religious freedom has resulted in concerted efforts in the Golden State to sacrifice this first liberty on the altar of secular cultural imperatives. Continue Reading »
Just this year, several countries legalized euthanasia or prepared to open that lethal door in the near future. Continue Reading »
“A society that believes in nothing can offer no argument even against death.” Continue Reading »
Michael Hickson died on June 11 because his doctors did not believe he had a sufficient “quality of life” to justify curative treatment.
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The American Clinicians Academy on Medical Aid in Dying recently published formal guidelines that permit doctors to assist suicides via the Internet. Continue Reading »
Proliferating litigation against Catholic medical institutions threatens the fundamental right of free exercise of religion. Continue Reading »
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