Tag: litigation

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 18, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Legal Science (jurisprudence)
Tagged
, activists, automobiles, Aztecs, beauty, business, copper, Ecuador, emancipation, environmental regulations, fish, flourishing, government, hares, health, human sacrifice, ideologues, indigenous people, Jan van de Venis, judges, language, lawyers, life, lithium, litigation, Māori, modern life, nature, nature rights, New Zealand, Panama, permit requirements, The Water Diplomat, Whanganui River, zoning}

Using Mild Language to Push Radical Nature Rights

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 18, 2026

Bioethics, Ethics, Legal Science (jurisprudence)

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Nature rights activists seem nice. They are not verbal bomb throwers. Rather, they deploy passive language. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 25, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, americans, China, ecocide, fauna, flora, geological features, human rights, industry, liberty, litigation, nature rights, The Guardian, United Kingdom, United Nations, Western civilization}

Granting Rights to Nature Is Being Negotiated at the United Nations

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 25, 2024

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

3}

“Nature rights” and “ecocide” are part of the effort among radicals to destroy Western civilization, the central principle of which is human exceptionalism. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 24, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __cedited, anti-humanism, conservation, Earth Day, ecosystem, environmentalism, Lake Erie, litigation, nature rights, pollution, regulation, Science (journal)}

Push to Replace Earth Day with “Nature Rights”

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 24, 2020

Bioethics

3}

The activists are right about one thing. Rights of nature would be far more effective in impeding development and extracting wealth from the land than the current system. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 8, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, abortion, employment, First Amendment, freedom of religion, Islam, litigation, Roman Catholic}

Mission: To Eviscerate Freedom of Religion

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 8, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

The only real difference between Robyn Pennacchia and me is that I believe in the entirety of the First Amendment and she does not. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 8, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __cedited, bacteria, Canada, corporations, environmental movement, global warming, humans, Lake Erie, liberty, litigation, mosquitoes, nature rights, orcas, responsibilities, rights, rivers, science journals, The Conversation, whales}

What Do Orcas Want? Rights! When Do They Want Them? Now!

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 8, 2019

Bioethics

4}

Apparently orcas are threatened in an area of Canadian waters. The government has suggested voluntary sanctuaries. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 5, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Tagged
, __cedited, Argentina, Bolivia, human thriving, Lake Erie, litigation, nature rights, orangutan, Pachamama, Pittsburgh, radicalism, Santa Monica, Toledo, writ of habeas corpus}

Lake Erie Now Has Rights

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 5, 2019

Bioethics, Environment & Climate

4}

If nature has rights, that means everything does, which devalues “rights” just as a wild inflation deflates the worth of currency. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 21, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __cedited, animal standing, animals, Argentina, chimpanzees, Congress, horses, judges, law, lawsuits, litigation, monkeys, Oregon, pets, rationality, San Francisco Chronicle, whales, zoo}

When Horses Sue

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 21, 2018

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

4}

“Animal standing” would open the courts to lawsuits brought by animals. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 1, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __cedited, California, circumcision, Constitution, doctors, free speech, gender dysphoria, infant, litigation, medical conscience, medical professionals, medicine, nurses, puberty, suicide, Supreme Court}

A Win for Medical Conscience

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 1, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Powerful forces want to compel doctors to violate their consciences in their professional lives. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 3, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __cedited, anti-human, Colorado River, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, conservation, environmentalism, lawsuits, litigation, nature rights, Sir David Attenborough}

Colorado Is Ground Zero for “Nature Rights”

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 3, 2018

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

3}

Environmentalism isn’t about conservation or protecting endangered species anymore. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
March 15, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, __cedited, academic freedom, American Medical Association, Baltimore, evidence, evolution, Free Science, Johns Hopkins University, litigation, malpractice, medicine, orthodoxy, patients, physicians}

The Costs of Defensive Science

_{Sarah Chaffee
March 15, 2018

Evolution, Medicine

4}

In our highly litigious society, physicians and other health-care professionals often practice what is known as “defensive medicine.” Read More ›