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human dignity

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Kitchen waste recycling in composter
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Wesley J. Smith
Date
September 27, 2022
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Human Dignity
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Composting the Dead Devalues the Importance of the Living

Wesley J. Smith
September 27, 2022
Starting in 2027, California will allow composting of the dead. Known officially as “natural organic reduction (NOR),” this novel final disposition process transforms the deceased’s body into soil to spread on gardens or in which to plant flowers or a tree. Read More ›
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Elephant in the savannah, in Namibia, Africa, concept for traveling in Africa and Safari
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Wesley J. Smith
Date
June 14, 2022
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Animal Welfare
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Court Rules Elephant Does Not Have Rights

Wesley J. Smith
June 14, 2022
I have written here several times about the attempt by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NHRP) to “break the species barrier” by having animals declared “persons” entitled to enforceable rights. The first cases involved chimps. The latest attempt involved Happy the elephant, a denizen of the Bronx Zoo. Read More ›
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Group of pregnant women during fitness class
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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
September 29, 2021
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Transgenderism
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‘Bodies With Vaginas’ and the Woke Dehumanization of Women

Wesley J. Smith
September 29, 2021
Suddenly, after decades of progress—indeed, when it is now deemed misogynistic to use once common descriptors such as “chicks” or “broads”—women are being reduced to crass identifiers generally related to their female body parts and/or biological functions. Read More ›
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Embryos frozen in liquid nitrogen for IVF procedure close up
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Author
Wesley J. Smith
Date
April 16, 2021
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Genetic Manipulation, Human Dignity
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Scientists Make Human-Monkey Hybrid Embryos

Wesley J. Smith
April 16, 2021
They said they wouldn’t do it, but of course they did. Scientists working in China — where else? — have constructed embryos that are part human and part monkey. Read More ›
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