Human Exceptionalism and Universal Human Rights Focus of Bioethics Podcast
Brave New Bioethics is a new podcast reported by Discovery Institute senior fellow and nationally acclaimed bioethicist Wesley J. Smith. Listeners can tune in to the first episode on Tuesday, November...
View ArticleAre We Defining A Brave New Future Where All Human Life Is Not Protected?
Are we headed for a brave new world where unconscious people are treated as if they were simply biological machines? Wesley warns that we maybe headed down that path, even though today most people...
View ArticleBNB #2: The New Ethics of Personhood Theory
What is this new idea called personhood theory? Under Personhood theory each human being doesn’t have moral worth simply and merely because he or she is human, but rather, we each have to earn our...
View ArticleTwo Different Views on Life, Loving and Killing
On this episode of BNB Smith highlights the stark difference between the attitudes of two men toward the weakest and most vulnerable among us, a difference that can be described literally as the...
View ArticleThe Truth About the Ghoulish Aspirations of Jack Kevorkian
Jack Kevorkian will soon be out of jail on parole, but we likely will not be told much about the ultimate goal Kevorkian sought to achieve through his nearly 10-year, law-defying campaign of assisted...
View ArticleOn Keeping a Disabled Girl "Small"
I have had several requests to comment on the story of the cognitively disabled girl named Ashley, whose parents subjected her to hormone treatments and invasive surgeries (hysterectomy, mastectomy) to...
View ArticleThe Making of an Activist
I am often asked how I became an anti euthanasia activist. Like most people on both sides of the issue, it began with a personal experience. Usually after a suicide, those who were close to the...
View ArticleThe Trouble With Transhumanism
There is a new religion spreading across the globe. It is called transhumanism. Transhumanists believe that natural humans aren’t good enough, smart enough, strong enough, athletic enough, beautiful...
View ArticleIs China Murdering Dissedents for Organs?
There is no question that Chinese transplant centers sell their wares. China has admitted to selling the organs of executed prisoners. The question is whether some of these organs come from Falun Gong...
View ArticleAnimal Rights Liberationists
On this episode of Brave New Bioethics, Wesley J. Smith takes a look at how an anti-human agenda like that of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is capable of causing great human harm....
View ArticleHospice association abandons patient's best interests with refusal to...
On this episode of Brave New Bioethics, CSC senior fellow Wesley J. Smith looks at the newly release statement from the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine on the issue of physician...
View ArticleCloning Double Talk
On this episode of Brave New Bioethics senior fellow Wesley J. Smith explains how a new bill introduced in the US Senate actually authorizing human cloning can yet be called a ban on cloning. New...
View ArticleSupreme Court Upholds Ban on Partial Birth Abortion
On this episode of BNB Wesley Smith looks at last week's Supreme Court decision upholding the ban on partial birth abortion. Smith examines the majority decision, written by Justice Kennedy, and notes...
View ArticleEugenic Embryo Screening
On this episode of Brave New Bioethics, Wesley Smith takes a look at the disturbing trend toward embryo quality control. After embryo-screening was recently employed to prevent a child from being born...
View ArticleIs the DEA scaring doctors away from treating pain aggressively
Is the Drug Enforcement Administration scaring doctors away from treating pain aggressively? Bioethicist Wesley J. Smith discusses recent reports on the DEA’s aggressive pursuit of doctors who...
View ArticleSoul Believer: In Defense of Human Exceptionalism
In this installment of BNB, Wesley J. Smith discusses the ongoing assault on human exceptionalism. Exceptionalism holds that human life is intrinsically unique and valuable, different from life as...
View ArticleVick Charges Speak to Our Humanity
Do animals have rights? Bioethicist Wesley J. Smith investigates this issue in light of the dog fighting scandal surrounding football star Michael Vick. Smith argues that the outrage generated by...
View ArticleFrom Ralph Nader to the Discovery Institute
In this installment of BNB, Anika Smith interviews Discovery Institute Senior Fellow and bioethicist Wesley J. Smith, who shares his story of the people and events which shaped him into the advocate he...
View ArticleHuman Exceptionalism Is Necessary for Human Rights
On this episode of What It Means to Be Human, Wesley J. Smith, senior fellow in Human Rights and Bioethics at Discovery Institute, explains why human exceptionalism is so important for universal human...
View ArticleWhy We Call Them Human Rights
On this episode of What It Means to Be Human, Wesley J. Smith examines a new extreme environmentalism that seeks to grant equal rights to . . . Nature. Yes, Nature. "Nature rights" have just been...
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