Wesley J. Smith
National Review
San Francisco Bay Area, CA, United States
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British Medical Journal: Gender Ideology Not Settled Science
Europe is hitting the brakes on potentially harmful interventions for gender-dysphoric children such as puberty blocking, cross-hormone administration, and surgeries. → Read More
Unleash the Trial Lawyers to End Mutilation of Gender-Dysphoric Children
Eventually suing doctors and others who pushed or cooperated with such drastic actions will become the equivalent for lawyers of the "Camp Lejeune" lawsuits currently proliferating and being advertised ubiquitously on television. → Read More
About Those ‘Synthetic Embryos’
The time is now to establish enforceable ethical and legal boundaries about what can be done, particularly with human research. → Read More
Canadian Children’s Activity Book Indoctrinates Kids into Euthanasia
The euthanasia agenda is gut-wrenching, morally destructive, and wrong, and it has the potential to seriously impact the emotional well-being of children. → Read More
U.K. Transgender Clinic to Close after Damning Report: ‘Not Safe’ for Children
Meanwhile, the Biden administration promotes experimental ‘gender-affirming’ care for children. → Read More
Two Fathers Sue Because Surrogate Gave Birth to a Daughter
A gay married couple is suing a fertility clinic and a fertility specialist because, though they specified that they wanted two boys, they received a girl. → Read More
Suicide Contagion
Recent studies suggest that in places where assisted suicide is legal, both assisted suicides and unassisted suicides increase. → Read More
Did Fauci and Collins Receive Royalty Payments from Drug Companies?
It’s time for Fauci and Collins to answer some pointed questions in open hearings. → Read More
India State High Court Rules That Nature Is a ‘Living Being’ with ‘Rights’
When the nature-rights movement becomes part of the international climate-change agenda, we can kiss our prosperity goodbye. → Read More
Transhumanist Theorist Calls the AI-Unenhanced ‘Useless People’
Alarmingly, transhumanist values are being embraced at the highest strata of society, including in Big Tech, in universities, and among the Davos crowd of globalist would-be technocrats. → Read More
HHS: Castrations/Mastectomies Okay for Transgender Minors
President Biden's HHS has gone all-in on radical transgender ideology, encouraging early body-changing medical interventions as "gender-affirming" care. → Read More
The Impossibility of Christian Transhumanism
The transhumanist worldview and the Christian faith are incompatible. → Read More
‘Healthy’ American Sisters Die at Swiss Suicide Clinic
Assisted-suicide legalization eventually leads to death on demand. → Read More
Maryland Bill Effectively Decriminalizes Neglecting Newborns to Death
A Maryland bill would mean that a baby who survived an abortion could be allowed to die without care, and no investigation could be pursued nor legal penalty applied. → Read More
Bioethicist: Transgender Children Should Decide Whether to Transition
A column argues that children should be able to decide whether to obtain gender-transition interventions — even if they are too immature to make meaningful decisions. → Read More
Please Do Not Watch the Olympics
If the Games are widely watched, it will prove to Chinese leaders that the West speaks loudly about human rights but carries a limp stick. → Read More
Defending Catholic Healthcare
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. → Read More
George Will Pushes the Hemlock
The usually factually fastidious columnist has made a highly misleading case for physician-assisted suicide. → Read More
Hospital Loses ‘Futile Care’ Attempt to Force Covid Patient Off Life Support
A Minnesota hospital recently tried to remove a Covid patient named Scott Quiner from a ventilator over the objections of his wife. → Read More
New York Department of Health Announces Discriminatory Policy on Covid Therapeutics Access
The New York Department of Health announced that access to some Covid therapeutics will be partly based on consideration of race or ethnicity as a risk factor. → Read More