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Tom Shakely
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July 4, 2020
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Independence Day and Renewed Vigor

Tom Shakely
July 4, 2020
Human Exceptionalism

Happy Independence Day! As America marks July 4th, it’s worth taking a few moments to pause in gratitude for the Declaration of Independence and its lasting importance for what America’s framers recognized about the human person, the source of human dignity, and the nature of human rights. Clarke Forsythe, Senior Counsel at Americans United for Life (and a colleague and friend) writes in National Review today on why the Declaration still matters for all Americans: Amid our national dialogue over race and justice, my family’s reading of the Declaration of Independence will be even more meaningful than usual this Fourth of July. At the core of the Declaration — the founding political document of America — is the principle that the Read More ›

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Measure fever in senior citizens in the nursing home because of Covid-19
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Wesley J. Smith
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June 22, 2020
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Deadly COVID Discrimination against the Elderly in Sweden

Wesley J. Smith
June 22, 2020
Patient Care
We have seen how the most vulnerable to death from COVID have been abused in this country with, for example, New York and other states’ ordering infected COVID patients to be admitted to nursing homes, spreading the disease. Read More ›
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Dripping reagent into test tube with liquid sample, closeup. Laboratory analysis
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Wesley J. Smith
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June 17, 2020
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Genetic Manipulation

Ban Germ-Line Genetically Engineered Babies

Wesley J. Smith
June 17, 2020
Genetic Manipulation
When a scientist in China proudly announced the birth of the first germ-line genetically engineered babies — meaning the alterations would flow down the generations — there was a firestorm. But notably, despite the screaming and arrest of the scientist by China (as if the authorities in the great tyranny didn’t know what he was up to), nothing was done to legally prevent other researchers from using the CRISPR technique to genetically engineer embryos and/or bring them to birth. Read More ›
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Bottle with pills euthanasia viagra alternative analgesics antibiotics care
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Wesley J. Smith
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June 15, 2020
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Euthanasia
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Dutch MD Euthanized Dementia Patient Despite Being Told ‘No’

Wesley J. Smith
June 15, 2020
Euthanasia
I have written before about Marinou Arends, the Dutch doctor who euthanized a woman with dementia struggling to stay alive. Readers may recall the doctor first drugged her patient’s coffee and then, when the woman awakened and fought against being killed, had the family hold the patient down while administering the lethal injection. Not only was she exonerated, but she was even praised by the judge. Read More ›
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Older woman lying in hospital bed alone looking at the Christian crucifix asking for her healing.
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Wesley J. Smith
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June 11, 2020
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Peter Singer Endorses Medical Discrimination Against Elderly in COVID Crisis

Wesley J. Smith
June 11, 2020
Patient Care
The utilitarian bioethicist Peter Singer does not believe that human life has intrinsic value based simply on being human. Rather, he endorses a “quality of life” ethic in which some of us have greater value than others. Read More ›
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Black Lives Matter Protest in Auburn, WA (June 2, 2020)
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Wesley J. Smith
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June 3, 2020
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Human Dignity, Human Rights
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Racism Violates Human Exceptionalism

Wesley J. Smith
June 3, 2020
Human Dignity, Human Rights
As the country mourns the awful killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, we should reflect on the importance of human exceptionalism in fighting the poison of bigotry in all its forms. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
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June 2, 2020
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Doctors Now Assist Suicides via Zoom

Wesley J. Smith
June 2, 2020
Euthanasia
We are always told that “strict guidelines will protect against abuse.” It’s always been baloney. As sold, assisted suicide was supposed to only be engaged between doctors of long-standing and patients well known to the prescriber. Read More ›
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Uighur Protest
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Wesley J. Smith
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May 29, 2020
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Human Rights
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Uighurs Need All the Help They Can Get

Wesley J. Smith
May 29, 2020
Human Rights
China is the most effectively tyrannical country on earth and one of the most despotic in history. As if the COVID debacle and Hong Kong suppression weren’t enough, these days it is energetically suppressing religious belief — because to the Communist Party leaders, there can only be one source of truth and one locus of loyalty, and that is the State. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
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May 27, 2020
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Human Exceptionalism

Why Fear Masks?

Wesley J. Smith
May 27, 2020
Human Exceptionalism

A friend asked for my thoughts about a new performance of Monteverdi’s “Beatus vir” (1640) by the Prague “early music” group Collegium 1704. It’s disturbing to see the combination of beautiful music, beautiful setting, beautifully produced video, even the instruments are beautiful (the interestingly shaped bows, for example, true to the historical period) — and then the COVID masks the performers all wear. The Latin text is Psalm 112, “Praise ye the Lord. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord.” If I ran Collegium 1704, I suppose I would do just as they did. If you’re an artist, you want people to say, “Did you see…? What do you think of…?” In that, they succeeded. Yet the images are Read More ›

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