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Another IVF Tragedy from our “Entitlement Culture”
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- Thursday, February 26th, 2009
- Wesley J. Smith
In Japan, a woman underwent IVF and was implanted, seemingly a happy pregnancy. Then, things proved to be terribly wrong. From the story :
A Japanese woman was likely impregnated with the fertilized egg of another woman by accident during… Read More
Humans Are Not 98% Genetically Identical to Chimpanzees
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- Thursday, August 14th, 2008
- Wesley J. Smith
I have been researching the purported genetic near-identity between humans and chimps – asserted as the “scientific” basis for the Great Ape Project – and found (unsurprisingly) that the entire advocacy line that “humans and chimps share 98% of our… Read More
New Name, Same Old Euthanasia Story
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- Wednesday, June 18th, 2003
- Wesley J. Smith
What’s not in a name is the question du jour at single-issue advocacy groups. First the venerable National Abortion Rights Action League (or National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League in recent years) officially dropped abortion from its name and… Read More
Assisted Suicide Advocates Take to the Internet
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- Monday, June 16th, 2003
- Wesley J. Smith
It was bound to happen. First, proponents of the culture of death brought us physician-assisted suicide (PAS). Now, we must contend with IAS — Internet-assisted suicide. Yes, you read right. As reported by Julia Scheeres in the June 8 San… Read More
Dying Cause: Assisted Suicide Is Losing Support
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- Saturday, May 31st, 2003
- Wesley J. Smith
For many years, the bunker-buster in the pro-assisted-suicide arsenal has been its supposed inevitability. Pointing to multiple public-opinion polls showing support for assisted suicide generally in the high 60-percent range, euthanasia advocates claimed that only a rigid, religiously motivated minority… Read More
A License to Clone, A Requirement to Kill
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- Monday, May 5th, 2003
- Wesley J. Smith
It is becoming increasingly clear that the bio-anarchists leading the charge to Brave New World want a virtually unlimited license to engage in human cloning. The proof is in the legislation they keep trying to pass.
If an Act Is… Read More
Cloning Con-Job in Senate
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- Friday, May 2nd, 2003
- Wesley J. Smith
Senators Orrin Hatch (R., Utah) and Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) are two of the great legislative con artists of our time.
Their bill – S. 303, the “Human Cloning Ban and Stem Cell Research Protection Act” — purports to outlaw… Read More
Doc Knows Best Will He Choose to Save Your Life?
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- Thursday, January 23rd, 2003
- Wesley J. Smith
Who should have the right to decide whether you receive life-sustaining medical treatment during a critical or terminal illness? Most would say with great confidence, “Me. Or, if I am unable to decide, then my family.” That should be true.… Read More
Clones and Real-Politik: Kevorkians of the Cloning Debate Weigh In
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- Thursday, January 16th, 2003
- Wesley J. Smith
The Case at Stanford
The Raelians and others who claim to be busily cloning human children seem to have adopted Kevorkian's strategy of defiance. Society's moral revulsion? Irrelevant. The likelihood that a cloned child would have serious health problems caused… Read More
Australia’s Dr. Death: Spreading the Assisted Suicide Gospel
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- Monday, December 16th, 2002
- Wesley J. Smith
The Suicide Promoter
Which brings to mind the Hemlock Society of the United States, perhaps the world's largest assisted-suicide advocacy group. No, they are not terrorists. But the organization's close association with and financial support for Australian suicide fanatic Dr.… Read More
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