October 2010

As I Have Been Saying for More Than 10 Years: Oregon Assisted Suicide Leads to “Doctor Shopping”

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC I have been called Cassandra on more than one occasion — many more. Often the person so saying is calling me an alarmist, thinking that Cassandra was a false prophet. Actually, she saw the future accurately — but nobody believed her. Yup, too often, that’s [...]

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The Power of Film to Tell Stories

CBC’s Jennifer Lahl and Wesley J. Smith are occasional writers for ToTheSource.org. Recently ToTheSource interviewed Jennifer. To The Source: How did you become interested in egg donation? What brought this to your attention? Jennifer Lahl: I became interested in it as a broader issue within the various reproductive technologies. I’ve been writing and speaking on [...]

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The Power of Film to Tell Stories

CBC’s Jennifer Lahl and Wesley J. Smith are occasional writers for ToTheSource.org. Recently ToTheSource interviewed Jennifer.To The Source: How did you become interested in egg donation? What brought this to your attention?Jennifer Lahl: I became interested in it as a broader issue within the various reproductive technologies. I’ve been writing and speaking on reproductive technology [...]

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Pushing Suicide to End the Pain of Grief

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC We’ve discussed this before — promoting suicide as a prophylactic against the pain of expected future grief. For example, the Canadian assisted suicide advocate Ruth Von Fuchs specifically supported a woman who wanted to commit suicide with her terminally ill husband at the Swiss suicide [...]

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Australian Patients Denied Pain Control as Country Debates Legalizing Euthanasia

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC It amazes me how media so often can’t — or won’t — connect the dots. In the Australian state of Queensland, the government is being accused of scandalously underfunding palliative care. From the story: TERMINALLY ill patients are being left to die in Queensland hospitals [...]

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Non Cooperation With Washington-State Assisted Suicide a Success

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC After Washington voters unwisely legalized assisted suicide, I said the battle wasn’t over. I reported that many hospitals and doctors had decided to refuse all participation in doctor prescribed death, and encouraged them to do so. That made assisted suicide advocates angry, but too bad. [...]

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IVF: No Liability in Ireland for Using Sperm With “Black” Genes

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC IVF has changed our attitudes and expectations about bearing children, and not necessarily for the better. Instead of unconditionally loving the child who we receive, some instead demand the right to obtain the child they want. And that can lead to litigation when the parents [...]

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Oregon Hospices Right Not to Cooperate With Assisted Suicide

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC I am rarely encouraged by news out of Oregon about assisted suicide, where doctors may legally prescribe a lethal overdose to patients they diagnose as terminally ill. Over the years, the number of assisted suicides has increased, while the media studiously ignored studies demonstrating that [...]

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Oregon Hospices Right Not to Cooperate With Assisted Suicide

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBCI am rarely encouraged by news out of Oregon about assisted suicide, where doctors may legally prescribe a lethal overdose to patients they diagnose as terminally ill. Over the years, the number of assisted suicides has increased, while the media studiously ignored studies demonstrating that abuses [...]

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Commercial Surrogacy is Human Trafficking: Biological Parents to Birth Mother — Abort Down Fetus!

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC What a can of worms unregulated IVF has become. Latest example: A couple using IVF and a surrogate have ordered the hired gestater to abort because the fetus/unborn baby had Down syndrome. From the story on BioNews: A couple from British Columbia, Canada, have been [...]

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