Over the past thirty years, as Wesley J. Smith details in his latest book, the concept of animal rights has been seeping into the very bone marrow of Western culture. One reason for this development is that the term “animal rights” is so often used very loosely, to mean simply being nicer to animals. But [...]

The drama over whether or not to starve Terri Schiavo to death by removing her feeding tube transfixed America and rekindled the debate over the “right to die.” One of its most eloquent participants in this debate was bioethicist Wesley J. Smith.
In Forced Exit, Smith contests the claim of euthanasia advocates that assisted suicide would [...]

Scare headlines about the first human clones appear in our newspapers. Biotech companies brag about manufacturing human embryos as “products” for use in medical treatments. Events are moving so fast–and biotechnology seems so complicated–that many of us worry we can’t keep up. But now, Wesley J. Smith provides us with a guide to the brave [...]