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Wesley J. Smith
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May 19, 2021
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Richard Dawkins: ‘Wise and Sensible’ to Abort Babies with Down Syndrome

Wesley J. Smith
May 19, 2021
When eliminating suffering because society’s first priority — instead of protecting innocent human life — it very easily metastasizes into eliminating the sufferer. And the suffering need not even be that of the person eliminated, but of family or society. Utilitarianism always leads to justifying killing. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
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May 18, 2021
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Human Rights
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The Attack on Religious Liberty is an Attack on All Our Freedoms

Wesley J. Smith
May 18, 2021
More than two hundred years ago, the Founding Fathers changed the world by imbedding the fundamental human right to religious freedom in the Constitution. That right now hangs by a thread. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
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May 10, 2021
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Stealing Vaccine Patents Would Be a Big Mistake

Wesley J. Smith
May 10, 2021
Patent protection is crucial to the free-market system and essential to continuing medical innovation. Whatever immediate benefit might be derived by stealing the vaccine would ultimately be more than offset by the new drugs never brought to market and vaccines not invented. Read More ›
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Gavel and Stethoscope on Gradated Background
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Wesley J. Smith
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May 10, 2021
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Health Care
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HHS Interpretation of ‘Discrimination Based on Sex’ Shows Urgency of Defeating Equality Act

Wesley J. Smith
May 10, 2021
Today, HHS announced it was reversing the Trump rule that defined “sex” as biological in order to forbid “discrimination” in health care based on sexual identity and orientation. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
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May 3, 2021
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Bioethics
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Jahi McMath Was Not Brain Dead

Wesley J. Smith
May 3, 2021
Readers may recall the sad case of Jahi McMath out of Oakland, Calif. In 2013, Jahi experienced a severe bleeding event after throat surgery and a subsequent cardiac arrest. She was successfully resuscitated, but her brain was catastrophically injured from loss of oxygen. Doctors at Oakland Children’s Hospital declared her brain dead and announced plans to remove Jahi from life support. Read More ›
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Blue sky and clouds over Henderson Creek, which runs through Rookery Bay in Marco Island
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Wesley J. Smith
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April 30, 2021
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Florida Creeks — Yes, the Bodies of Water — Sue to Enforce ‘Nature Rights’

Wesley J. Smith
April 30, 2021
The “nature rights” movement is stunningly anti-human. It not only removes the concept of “rights” from the strictly human realm — us, our juridical entities and associations, etc. — but was created to thwart human enterprise. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
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April 27, 2021
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Is Climate Change More Important Than Genocide?

Wesley J. Smith
April 27, 2021
Is the “climate crisis” really more important than everything else — even genocide — to the point that we will swallow whatever China does outside of that issue as the cost of fighting global warming? Apparently so. Read More ›
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