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The Nationalization of Assisted Suicide Will Have Far-Reaching Consequences

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 5, 2024}

Progressive cultural radicals are busily nationalizing their policy agendas by breaking the usual legal comity among the states. For example, California recently declared itself a transgender sanctuary jurisdiction. Its law now actively interferes with out-of-state child custody orders by allowing non-resident gender dysphoric children who make it to California to access puberty-blocking and transition surgeries despite their custodial parent’s refusal of consent.

World Health Organization Fails at Forcing ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ on Children

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 18, 2024}

The ruling class and international community clearly intend to impose a radical view of “sexual health” on us all—including setting gender-affirming care as the standard of care for treating gender dysphoric children—policies not shared by or agreed with by billions of the world’s people. But this important episode demonstrates that authoritarian impositions can sometimes be easier planned than accomplished—particularly when an informed public and child-protecting groups refuse to take the ruling elite’s ideological imperialism lying down.

Bioethicist Pushes Human Extinction in Prestigious Journal

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 10, 2024}

The fear of suffering (or deprivation of personal desires) is causing untold moral harm in the West — from ever-expanding euthanasia laws to the march of increasingly radical reproductive technologies, to transitioning children with gender dysphoria with harmful puberty blockers and mastectomies on teenage girls, to transhumanistic advocacy that threatens to unleash new eugenics, etc.

Francis Collins Disappointed as a Public-Health Leader

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 30, 2023}

Dr. Francis Collins may be a brilliant geneticist — he headed the very successful Human Genome Project among other laudable achievements — but he has been a disappointing public-health leader and public intellectual.

‘Nature Rights’ Paganism Advancing in the West

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 20, 2023}

Did you hear the news? Ireland may soon grant human-type rights to nature

Why Does the Proposal for Chimp–Human Hybrids Keep Coming Back?

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 12, 2023}

A few days ago, Templeton Foundation's mailer for its online magazine Nautilus pointed to a five-year-old article by University of Washington psychology prof (emeritus) David P. Barash, advocating the creation of a humanzee: “Doing so would be a terrific idea.”

Legalizing Euthanasia Poisons a Nation’s Soul

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 24, 2023}

Euthanasia isn't only bad medicine but also poisons the soul of nations that embrace killing as an answer to human suffering.

UN Bureaucrat: Destroy Science to Save Us From ‘Global Boiling’

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 7, 2023}

“Don’t listen to what they say, watch what they do,” is often good advice. But sometimes what they “say” is precisely what they plan to do. Case in point: A United Nations official named Volker Türk just published a column in Nature—the world’s most prestigious scientific journal—in which he proposes to “protect the right to science” to combat “climate change.”

Medical Aid in Dying: Euphemism of Choice for Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 24, 2023}

The word engineering never stops, does it? When radical policies are proposed, the first step is to change the lexicon to make it seem less extreme, even mundane.

No to Killing for Organs

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 21, 2023}

The shortage of organs for transplantation is threatening to unleash immoral and unethical remedies.

American College of Clinical Pharmacy Runs Away from Open Scientific Discourse

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 17, 2023}

The scientific method and the crafting of public policy requires open scientific discourse. But these days, that is in increasingly short supply. The science establishment is more dedicated to stifling those who dissent from policy orthodoxies.

Animal-Rights Philosopher: Let Animals Vote!

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 15, 2023}

The radicalism never stops. A post published by Oxford University Press — not a fringe publisher! — has advocated giving voting rights to animals.

Saving Humans Is More Important Than Saving Pigs

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 13, 2023}

The chronic shortage of organs for transplantation has some bioethicists supporting unethical curatives, such as doing away with the dead-donor rule, allowing organ procurement to be not only paired with euthanasia — already being done in Canada, Belgium, and the Netherlands — but also used as a means of euthanasia, and even allowing healthy people to consent to donating their vital organs.

‘Ocean Rights’ Earth Religion Advances in the UN

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 5, 2023}

The “international world order” is increasingly radical in its environmental engagement and anti-human in the policies it promotes. In the great cause of “saving the planet,” scientific precepts and empirical analyses are being cast aside in favor of a neo-earth religious mysticism.

The American Anthropological Association Is Shamefully Anti-Scientific

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 30, 2023}

Here we go again: A supposedly scientific organization crushes the scientific method in the cause of radical ideology.

The Canadian Culture of Death Brooks No Dissent

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 29, 2023}

Mere legalization of euthanasia is never enough. Eventually, efforts will be made to compel dissenting doctors and institutions to become complicit in the killing of sick patients — even if it violates constitutional guarantees of freedom of religion.

Protecting Gender-Dysphoric Children Is Neither Hateful nor Uniquely Conservative

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 21, 2023}

Gender ideologues keep pretending that laws limiting so-called gender-affirming care for children — such as puberty-blocking, mastectomies, and facial-reconstruction surgeries — are based on hate for transgender people and only supported by reactionaries. Such assertions are both wrong as to motive and false as to fact.

Study: Mental-Health Degeneration in 34 Percent of Children after Puberty Blocking

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 19, 2023}

When ideologues and the media insist that puberty blocking is the only appropriate care for children with gender dysphoria, don’t believe it. The studies have been few and far between, and there are many potential physical-health harms to children — such as infertility and poor bone development.

Say No to ‘Public Health’ Imperialism

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 15, 2023}

COVID-19 mandates and lockdowns opened the door. Now, the medical establishment is redefining our most contentious political controversies as “public health emergencies” so as to circumvent public resistance and impose policies on society unobtainable through normal democratic means.

Why We Can’t Trust the Science Journals

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 5, 2023}

The science and medical journals have become highly ideological on many of the most important and contentious societal issues of the day, ranging from global warming to gender ideology, to critical race theory, to virtually everything woke.