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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 14, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, bioethics, Canada, Charles Camosy, consensus, doctors, George W. Bush, human life, Journal of Medical Ethics, lawyers, Leon Kass, medical ethics, Ontario, orthodoxy, Paul Ramsey, philosophers, President’s Council on Bioethics, professors, public health, public policy, tradition}

Contrary to Claims, Bioethics Is Not a “Moral Tradition”

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October 14, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

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Talk about a “heads we win, tails you lose” consensus that can drive Hippocratic physicians out of the profession. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 29, 2025

Categories
Astronomy
Ethics
Planetology
Tagged
, animals, astrobiology, comprehension, Elon Musk, ethicists, geological features, indigenous people, International Court of Justice, Mars, moons, nature rights, planets, solar system, space exploration, trees, waves}

Now, It’s Rights for Planets, Moons, and Space Microbes

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 29, 2025

Astronomy, Ethics, Planetology

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The ultimate purpose in granting such rights would be to disincentivize investments in space exploration and keep us Gaia-bound. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 26, 2025

Categories
Arts
Bioethics
Tagged
, activism, assisted dying, assisted suicide, children, coercion, disability rights, England, equality, gender ideology, Harry Potter, liberals, physicians, popular culture, prevention, suicidal people, Wales, women}

J. K. Rowling Comes Out Against Legalized Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 26, 2025

Arts, Bioethics

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Two of the core tenets of liberalism are (supposed to be) protecting vulnerable people from exploitation and promoting equality among all people. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 25, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, advocacy, dams, flowing, Great Lakes, intelligentsia, nature rights, neo-pagan mysticism, Pachamama, rivers, water}

Nature Right Pushes Neo-Pagan Mysticism at Highest Academic Levels

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 25, 2025

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Human Exceptionalism

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Most recently, the Harvard Kennedy School hosted a symposium on “nature rights” undergirded by “indigenous knowledge.” Read More ›

Hands of an elderly man resting on a walking cane

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 21, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, advance directive, Alzheimer’s disease, antibiotics, dementia, hospice, killing, nursing, palliative care, patients, suffering, suicide, Thaddeus Mason Pope}

Will We Care For or Kill Dementia Patients?

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 21, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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I understand that people are terrified of dementia. Believe me, I get it. My mother died of Alzheimer’s. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 14, 2025

Categories
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, apology, dignity, emotion, ethics, Fox News, homeless, hospitalization, human beings, lethal injection, media, mental illness, murder, News, North Carolina, TikTok}

Did Brian Kilmeade Actually Say That?

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 14, 2025

Ethics, Medicine

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We have to always remember that people who are homeless have equal intrinsic dignity as all other human beings. Read More ›

Male doctor holding female patient hand on the hospital bed.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 10, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, animal testing, animals, Anthony Fauci, assisted suicide, bioethics, California, cancer, euthanasia, HIV, human body, illness, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Nuremberg Code, organ farms, Peter Singer, terminal illness, UC San Diego, utilitarianism}

California Research Experiments on People with “Life-Shortening” Conditions

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 10, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Human beings, regardless of how sick they are or how long they are expected to live, should never be considered less worthy of protection than are animals. Read More ›

Artistic image of mother nature. World environment and mother earth day concept

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 9, 2025

Categories
Earth Sciences
Environment & Climate
Ethics
Tagged
, capitalism, China, environmentalism, fauna, flora, free market, human thriving, indigenous people, inspiration, Mother Earth, mountain, nature rights, New Zealand, nonprofit organizations, ownership, prosperity, radical environmentalism, rainforest, river, Russia, stewardship, wealth}

Should We Put Mother Nature on the Board of Directors?

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September 9, 2025

Earth Sciences, Environment & Climate, Ethics

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Nature can’t “own” anything. That’s a human construct. Moreover, nature would be represented by environmental “flesh flake” radicals. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 5, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, arms, body parts, culture, Daily Mail, Due Process Clause, legs, medicine, mental illness, personal autonomy, spinal cord, transgender}

Here It Comes: First Transgenderism, Next Transableism

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 5, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Why is it not also appropriate to cut off unwanted arms or snip spinal cords if that brings emotional relief? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 4, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Technology
Tagged
, biotechnology, China, Communists, death, despair, Falun Gong, hope, immortality, life-extension, organs, Orthodox Christians, political prisoners, Russia, technology, transhumanism, transhumanists, tyranny, Vladimir Putin}

Xi and Putin: Tyranny and Transhumanism

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 4, 2025

Bioethics, Technology

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Transhumanism is mostly a materialistic wail of despair in the night, a desperate quest for hope for those who are terrified that death leads to obliteration. Read More ›