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Wesley J. Smith
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April 23, 2022
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Biden Administration’s Plan to Destroy Medical Conscience is Un-American

Wesley J. Smith
April 23, 2022
If news reports are right, the Biden administration intends to force doctors and nurses to participate in abortions—even when it violates their religious beliefs. It plans to force Catholic hospitals to violate Church teachings by requiring them to provide sterilization and gender transition procedures, even on children. Read More ›
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Definition of word euthanasia in dictionary
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Wesley J. Smith
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October 21, 2021
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Anti-Conscience Mandates Force Doctors to Violate Their Religious Beliefs

Wesley J. Smith
October 21, 2021
Compelling doctors to hew to secular cultural values in their practice of medicine is both authoritarian and un-American. If the anti-medical conscience campaign succeeds, we will all be the poorer for it. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
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October 1, 2021
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California Bars State-Funded Travel to Ohio over Medical Conscience Law — as It Applauds China

Wesley J. Smith
October 1, 2021
California has banned state-paid travel to Ohio because the state enacted a medical conscience law that permits professionals to refuse to participate in morally contentious procedures such as abortion and puberty blocking for transgendered teenagers. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
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July 17, 2021
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Medical Journal: Train Medical Students to Be Woke Social Activists

Wesley J. Smith
July 17, 2021
There the New England Journal of Medicine goes pushing woke agendas again. This time, the extremely politically progressive medical journal has published an article urging that medical students be taught that left-wing social-justice engagement should be among their professional duties. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
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July 14, 2021
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Ezekiel ‘Mandate’ Emanuel Strikes Again

Wesley J. Smith
July 14, 2021
If Ezekiel Emanuel thinks it is wise policy, the country’s preeminent bioethicist generally wants to mandate it. For example, he repeatedly called for mandatory national shutdowns. He has urged that all children be forced to have a flu shot every year. He also advocated that different levels of government impose vaccine mandates. He also believes that doctors should be required to perform abortions when asked, or find an abortionist for the patient if they have a conscientious objection. “Mandate” should be Emanuel’s middle name. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
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March 7, 2021
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The French Revolution is Attacking the American Revolution

Wesley J. Smith
March 7, 2021
“That’s insane!” These days, how often do we say those words? The litany could go on and on. Dr. Seuss is suddenly persona non grata, six of his books removed from publication because they are “racist” and “hateful.” That’s insane! Read More ›
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A transgender flag being waved at LGBT gay pride march
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Wesley J. Smith
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February 15, 2021
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California Insurance Commissioner Orders Health Insurance to Pay for Minors’ Transgender Mastectomies

Wesley J. Smith
February 15, 2021
I missed this when it happened in December, but it is worth noticing now. California’s Insurance Commissioner has decided that health-insurance companies must pay for the removal of the healthy breasts of biological minor girls with gender dysphoria, just as they would if the surgery was required for cancer or a serious injury. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
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February 11, 2021
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California Bill to Force M.D. Participation in Assisted Suicide

Wesley J. Smith
February 11, 2021
When activists successfully legalized assisted suicide in California, they persuaded the California Medical Association to shift from opposition to neutrality with the promise that no doctor would be forced to participate. But here’s the thing with assisted suicide: Such promises are made to be broken. Read More ›
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Pope in the church. Back view
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Wesley J. Smith
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January 22, 2021
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Equality Act’s Attack on Religious Liberty, Medical Conscience

Wesley J. Smith
January 22, 2021
President Biden said during the campaign that he supported the Equality Act, which is being sold as a means of guaranteeing equality for LGBT people. But it does more than that. It would destroy medical conscience by removing existing protections that permit doctors and nurses to refuse participation in abortion, and it would gut the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
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December 12, 2020
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Not Identifying Sex on Birth Certificates Pushed in New England Journal of Medicine

Wesley J. Smith
December 12, 2020

The New England Journal of Medicine continues its hard swing to the woke left. Now, it has published an advocacy article that would remove sex designation as an identifiable factor on birth certificates. From, “Failed Assignments: Rethinking Sex Designations on Birth Certificates”: Assigning sex at birth also doesn’t capture the diversity of people’s experiences. About 6 in 1000 people identify as transgender, meaning that their gender identity doesn’t match the sex they were assigned at birth. Others are nonbinary, meaning they don’t exclusively identify as a man or a woman, or gender nonconforming, meaning their behavior or appearance doesn’t align with social expectations for their assigned sex. The idea is to move sex designation “below the line,” which allows for general statistical Read More ›

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