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Carer in latex gloves feeding an aged lady

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 4, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, advance directive, autonomy, caregivers, chemotherapy, comfort feeding, death, dementia, Dementia-Specific Advance Directives, dignity, euthanasia, feeding tubes, food, kidney dialysis, medical treatments, New Jersey, nourishment, public policy, spoon-feeding, undernourishment, water}

Mission to Kill Dementia Patients Moves Forward

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 4, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

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By all means, prohibit forced feeding, but also provide that patients be given all nourishment they want. Read More ›

Hands of an elderly man resting on a walking cane

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 30, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, antipsychotics, assisted suicide, bioethicists, Bioethics (journal), confusion, decision‐making, dehydration, distress, doctors, encouragement, euthanasia, fluids, HIV, palliating doctor, patients, physicians, professional journals, refractory delirium, self-starvation, suffering, suicide, suicide assistance, syringes, terminal sedation, voluntary stop eating and drinking, VSED}

Journal Advocates “Terminal Sedation” for People Committing Suicide by Self-Starving

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 30, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

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Articles in professional journals are a means of constructing future public policy and people need to be warned. Read More ›

Depressed woman sitting on floor covering face with hands in despair

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 15, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, adolescents, detransitioners, Finland, gender, gender reassignment, hormones, ideologues, lawmakers, malpractice, mastectomies, medical ethics, mental health, Paediatrica, patients, psychiatric morbidity, psychiatric treatment, puberty blockers, young adults}

Study Finds Gender Reassignment Harmed Mental Health of Adolescents

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 15, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

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Hopefully, this study will aid the many lawsuits being filed by childhood victims (detransitioners). Read More ›

Operation room surgery in hospital, blurred figures. Professional treatment and professional conduct concept.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 14, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Belgium, bioethics, Canada, Canadian media, China, Chinese Communist Party, Chinese doctors, dead donor rule, dying, Epoch Times, Falun Gong, instrumentalization, Jan Jekielek, Killed to Order, lethal injection, medicine, Netherlands, Noelia Castillo Ramos, organ harvesting, political prisoners, suicide, surgery, utilitarianism, Uygur Muslims, Western medicine}

In Drift Toward Instrumentalizing Humans, Western Medicine Follows China

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 14, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

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At least in some sense, once the girl was deemed killable, her body parts became the primary factor in her care. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 4, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, bioethics, Carlos Simon, diseases, embryos, endometriosis, experiments, fetal farming, fetuses, fibroids, gestating, Human, human beings, human life, medicine, menstrual cycle, MIT Technology, parenthood, transplant medicine, unborn humans, uterus, Xavier Santamaria}

Scientists Keep Removed Human Uterus Alive for a Day; Get Ready for Experiments

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 4, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

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So, the plan ultimately is to manufacture human life solely for experimenting upon. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 28, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, antiboyism, antigirlism, authoritarianism, baby, bioethics, breasts, California, carefreeness, children, China, choice, coercion, discrimination, Ethics (journal), force, gestating, gestation, girls, medicine, mothering, peer-reviewed journals, philosophers, physical restraint, pregnancy, pro-abortion, pro-choice, pro-life, sedation, terminology, totalitarianism, transgender, University of British Columbia}

Ethics Journal Urges MANDATORY Abortion for Pregnant Minors

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 28, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

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There is a word to describe “philosophy” like this: totalitarian. Indeed, it reminds me of China’s “one-child” policy. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
March 20, 2026

Categories
Arts
Computational Sciences
Ethics
Tagged
, Alexandria, artificial general intelligence, artificial superintelligence, batteries, Brownshirts, Caltech, competition, Elliot Pryce, engineering, experience machine, family, fans, fiction, fidelity, general intelligence, governments, Gustav Mahler, human beings, humans, intelligences, language, light, machine life, Maine, marriage, Mars, metaphysics, Palo Alto, perpetual light, processors, quantum effects, retirement, Robert Nozick, robots, Science and Culture Today, self-preservation, superintelligence, technology, The Battering Company, theorems, University of Texas}

Requiem for an Artificial Superintelligence

_{William A. Dembski
March 20, 2026

Arts, Computational Sciences, Ethics

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On the morning of his upload, he signed transfer papers, redundancy protocols, continuity covenants, and one handwritten page that no lawyer saw. Read More ›

Out of the Loop. Abstract illustration. Man stands in a post-apocalyptic wasteland city near a giant concrete circle portal.

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
March 20, 2026

Categories
Culture
Ethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, adulthood, angels, atheists, C. S. Lewis, children, Christianity, Dante Alighieri, evil, faith, grown children, Heaven, J. Budziszewski, Jesus Christ, materialism, natural law, New Deal, nihilism, Politics, pride, privation theory of evil, radicalism, scholarship, sin, Socialist Party, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, teaching, truth, University of Texas, Young People's Socialist League}

Back from the Wasteland: J. Budziszewski on His Intellectual and Spiritual Journey

_{Terrell Clemmons
March 20, 2026

Culture, Ethics, Faith & Science

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"In the reconstruction period, it was as though I had been living in a dark attic, but now the shutters were being thrown back." Read More ›

Lonely Poor Boy Facing Backward Against Black

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
March 19, 2026

Categories
Ethics
Medicine
Philosophy
Tagged
, after-birth abortion, authoritarianism, bathrooms, Christian apologetics, Creed & Culture, experts, family, government, happiness, J. Budziszewski, lunacy, medical ethics, neutrality, pandemic, Pandemic of Lunacy, partisanship, philosophy, Politics, religion, sanity, sexuality, study groups, tampons, University of Texas, virtue}

Why Are We Going Crazy? New Book Has a Diagnosis

_{Terrell Clemmons
March 19, 2026

Ethics, Medicine, Philosophy

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“So-called neutrality is really bad-faith authoritarianism. Whatever view succeeds in passing itself off as neutral wins without making a case for itself.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 17, 2026

Categories
Ethics
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, ancestors, blackmail, Death with Dignity, flourishing, forests, groves, Harvard Law School, human thriving, humans, indigenous people, irrationality, lawfare, life cycles, Moon, mysticism, nature, nature rights, neo-paganism, nutrients, oceans, Peruvian bees, property, rivers, soil, students, temperature, toolkit, tree rights, universities, University of Sussex, water, woodlands}

In Latest Statement from a University, Tree Rights Advocacy Is Based on Irrationality

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 17, 2026

Ethics, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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We protect trees and woodlands with laws and regulations without resorting to irrational ideological justifications and materially impeding human thriving. Read More ›