August 2011

Mercy Killing to Prevent Child Abuse

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Society is oozing “compassion” as a reason to kill these days. Self starvation is being promoted in the NYT. Assisted suicide is treated by many commentators and advocates as a necessity. And now a mother who killed her healty 8-year-old says she was justified in [...]

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Immortality Would Not Be Pretty

This season’s Torchwood, which was once fun science fiction — a spinoff of Dr. Who — has this season, become great science fiction. Shades of Death Takes a Holiday, the plot line has human death suddenly stopping, beginning with a child sexual predator/killer who survives his execution — played with magnificent smarminess by Bill Pullman, [...]

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No One Dies Alone

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC How refreshing. The media so often focus on doctor-prescribed death advocates and social outlaws like Kevorkian, that people who do really good, compassionate, and important work with people who are dying rarely receive their due. That is why I am very happy to see a [...]

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Doctors’ Duty is to Patients, Not “Society”

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Increasingly the medical intelligentsia are pushing a dual mandate on physicians in the name of cutting costs — one to patients and one to society — and when they conflict, many want the individual’s needs to be subsumed to the collective. This attempt to redefine [...]

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Assisted Living Facilities Should Not be Forced to Allow Self Starvation Suicide

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC The assisted suicide movement teaches people how to commit suicide by self starvation. To be clear, I am not talking about when people stop eating as a natural part of the natural dying process. That isn’t suicide. But rather, refusing food and water, not because [...]

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“Don’t Be Evil” Google Fined in On-Line Illegal Pharmacy Racket

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Google’s business slogan was once, “Don’t be evil,” which the company dropped in 2009. Perhaps they should have kept it. Now, Google is paying a $500 million fine for knowingly allowing on-line pharmacies that illegally sell drugs without a prescription to advertise on the companies [...]

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Euthanasia Pushes Belgium Into Abyss

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC The Netherlands used to be the heart of euthanasia darkness. It is still dark, but the culture of death crown has passed to Belgium, which not only legalized doctor-injected killing, but has enthusiastically embraced euthanasia’s logical corollaries. And now, we find that the number of [...]

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Utilitarian Moral Views Linked to Psychopathology!

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC This is funny. How often do we hear about studies claiming to demonstrate that liberals are smarter than conservatives, or conservatives live in a world dominated by fear: You know the drill. Well now a study has come out stating that those who believe that [...]

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A Priest’s Conscientious Objection to the Dutch Culture of Death

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC So, a Dutch priest has refused to conduct the funeral of a person who died by euthanasia. His choice, right? No. An uproar has ensued. From the story: A priest in the parish of Liempde in North Brabant refused to conduct the funeral of a [...]

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Rejecting “Right and Wrong” A Prescription for Allowing Great Evil

By Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Bioethicist Joel Marks comments on his loss of religious belief and how it led to his eschewing the very concept of “right” and “wrong.” It is an interesting read for me because it seems his “anti epiphany” flowed directly both from his rejection of God, [...]

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