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Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 23, 2023

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Bioethics
Science Reporting
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, abandonment, assisted suicide, Belgium, Canada, Canadians, doctors, euthanasia, Hippocratic Oath, lethal injection, mental illness, Netherlands, New York Times, patients, policymakers, prescription, psychiatry, suicide, United States}

NYT Pushes Suicide for the Mentally Ill

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April 23, 2023

Bioethics, Science Reporting

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Clancy Martin’s first paragraph makes clear why his thesis should be rejected out of hand. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 29, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science
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, advance directive, California, Canada, Colorado, compassion, Connecticut, dehydration, disabilities, euthanasia, Hawaii, heart, human life, kidneys, liver, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, mental illness, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, new york, nihilism, Oregon, organ transplant, Terri Schiavo, Vermont, VSED}

A Culture-of-Death Tipping Point

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March 29, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine, Science

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A legal battle raged for several years during which the country agonized and argued about the right and moral course. Read More ›

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Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 24, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science
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, assisted suicide, barbiturates, COVID-19, death, Death with Dignity, doctors, euthanasia, lethal injection, nurse practitioners, pandemic, patients, suicide, telemedicine, terminal illness}

Death Activists Oppose Limits on Virtual Access to Assisted Suicide

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March 24, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine, Science

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What activists really seek is assisted suicide (and eventually, lethal-injection euthanasia) without meaningful restrictions. Read More ›

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Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 22, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, Canada, crime, culture, euthanasia, human life, insulin, Jack Kevorkian, judges, murder}

Euthanasia’s Cultural Collateral Damage: Less Respect for Human Life

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March 22, 2023

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Canada has fallen off the euthanasia moral cliff by allowing broad categories of people to be killed by doctors as a means of ending “suffering.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 23, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, Belgium, Canada, doctors, euthanasia, experts, lawmakers, Netherlands, parental consent, parents, pediatricians, United States}

Canadian Lawmakers Support Euthanasia for Minors without Parental Consent

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February 23, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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Canada, being our closest cultural cousin, exerts a substantial influence on our own country’s social policies. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 1, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, dehydration, elderly, euthanasia, hospice, reporters, starvation, suicide, Terri Schiavo, voluntary stop eating and drinking, VSED}

We Aren’t an Anti-Suicide Culture Anymore

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December 1, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine

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The assisted-suicide movement boosts suicide in many forms. One of the most insidious is known in euthanasia parlance as VSED. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 25, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Canada, compassion, crime, Daily Mail, death, dignity, euthanasia, killing, MAiD, organ harvesting, organs, patients, PTSD, punishment, Spain, suffering, veterans}

Two Tales from the Euthanasia Dystopia

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August 25, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine

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In Spain, a criminal who shot four people and was, in turn, shot in the spine by police and paralyzed, was granted death by euthanasia. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 19, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, abortion, Associated Press, autonomy, Brave New World, Canada, depression, discrimination, euthanasia, homicide, human dignity, medicine, physician-assisted suicide, suffering}

“Thank You for Waiting. The Doctor Will Kill You Now…”

_{Michael Egnor
August 19, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine, Science

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Canada has some of the most permissive euthanasia laws in the world and allows people with disabilities to be killed on request. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 3, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Canada, conscience rights, COVID-19, culture, dementia, euthanasia, lockdown, loneliness, mental illness, Ontario, organ harvesting, suicide prevention, United States}

10,000+ Canadian Euthanasia Killings in 2021

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August 3, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

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The statistics are startling and illustrate that once euthanasia consciousness infects a culture, it grows like a fungus. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 25, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, activists, assisted suicide, Constitution, courts, Dobbs v. Jackson, Due Process Clause, euthanasia, history, hubris, law, Supreme Court}

How Euthanasia Activists Laid the Groundwork for Overturning Roe

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June 25, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine

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Back in the ’90s, the assisted-suicide movement tried to convince the Supreme Court to impose a Roe–style decision for their cause. Read More ›