Human Exceptionalism

Minor Euthanized in Belgium

By Wesley J. Smith September 17, 2016

A Belgian MD filled a syringe with heart-stopping poison, and injected the fluid into the arm of a dying child who had asked to die, causing death. And it was ...

Goodbye Human Exceptionalism, Hello The Corner

By Wesley J. Smith August 16, 2016

This is the last post on Human Exceptionalism. No, I am not taking my football and going home. Nor have I been given the boot. Rather, NRO has invited me to opine exclusively on the ...

Canadian Bar Association Wants More Euthanasia

By Wesley J. Smith August 12, 2016

Once a society accepts the premise that killing is an acceptable answer to suffering, there is seemingly no upper limit to which that principle will eventually not apply. The Canadian Supreme ...

NIH Can’t Be Trusted to Regulate Animal/Human Research

By Wesley J. Smith August 4, 2016

The NIH is considering funding research that will inject human stem cells into animal embryos, thereby creating human/animal chimeras. We have to be careful how we react to such stories and not ...

Dolly Clones Paving Way for Human Cloning

By Wesley J. Smith July 27, 2016

Apparently clones of the same dead sheep from which Dolly was manufactured are in good health and aging normally. From the LiveScience story: Four cloned sheep that are genetically identical to Dolly, the ...

Trump, Hillary, and Bioethics

By Wesley J. Smith July 25, 2016

I have been asked what I think the US election means to bioethics. A lot and not much. Here’s how I put it in an interview in BioEdge: BioEdge: You can’t ...

Protect Vermont MDs’ Right to Not Push Assisted Suicide!

By Wesley J. Smith July 20, 2016

Assisted suicide isn’t the same as palliative care. The latter about easing symptoms and alleviating pain. The former about intentionally ending life. But the culture of death brooks no dissent. Vermont authorities ...

Quebec Can’t Kill Them Soon Enough

By Wesley J. Smith July 19, 2016

Waiting periods for reflection are supposed to be a “safeguard” against abuse in euthanasia and assisted suicide. That has been exposed as mere veneer as Quebec euthanasia advocates are furious that ...

AMA Playing “Hide the Ball” with Futile Care Rule?

By Wesley J. Smith July 15, 2016

“Futile care” is ad hoc health care rationing. It permits a doctor to refuse wanted life-sustaining treatment that is working, based on the values of the MD that keeping the ...

The Monsanto International Tribunal

By Wesley J. Smith July 12, 2016

I have been so caught up in the continuing dissipation of medical ethics and the euthanasia juggernaut in Canada, I haven’t had the time to discuss ecocide in awhile. Last year, ...