bret-kavanaugh-MIfUp3FA5ek-unsplash Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date March 26, 2025 CategoriesBioethicsNeuroscience & MindScience Reporting Tagged , abortion, advance directive, Arthur Caplan, assisted suicide, culture of death, dehydration, disability rights, euthanasia, fluids, food, gender-affirming care, Humanize, Michael Schiavo, parents, pro-life movement, Roe v. Wade, self-starvation and dehydration, Terri Schiavo, vaccine mandates, water Schiavo Case Was a Terrible Cultural Tipping Point Wesley J. Smith March 26, 2025 Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Science Reporting 4 The case elevated the culture of death into a conflagration. It boosted the passage of assisted suicide laws. Read More ›
asian-newborn-baby-sleeping-in-blanket-on-bed-stockpack-adob-314111763-stockpack-adobestock Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date March 11, 2022 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , abortion, babies, birth, chimpanzees, dignity, fetuses, human life, illness, infanticide, injury, Michael Schiavo, Poland, quality of life, Terri Schiavo, zebrafish Bioethicist Asks, “Does Birth Matter?” Answers, “No” Wesley J. Smith March 11, 2022 Bioethics, Medicine 3 In our current episode of let’s-allow-baby-killing, an Australian bioethicist named Walter Veit comes to the defense of infanticide. Read More ›
SchiavoGrave-1 Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date June 16, 2019 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __k-review, antibiotic resistance, Barack Obama, dehydration, Florida, George W. Bush, ideology, infection, Joe Biden, medical treatment, Michael Schiavo, starvation, Terri Schiavo, U.S. Senate Historical Revisionism in the Terri Schiavo Case Wesley J. Smith June 16, 2019 Bioethics, Medicine 4 The case tore this country apart, and alas, proved a significant accelerant to the spread of the culture of death in America. But it was not a matter of left versus right. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date February 1, 2018 CategoriesBioethicsMedicineNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __k-review, brain death, Dartmouth College, dehydration, Jahi McMath, Michael Schiavo, neurology, Terri Schiavo, The New Yorker, video More Myths of Terri Schiavo Wesley J. Smith February 1, 2018 Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind 3 One myth is that the family somehow edited videos of Terri to make it appear falsely that she was conscious. Read More ›