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Virginia's Democrat-controlled legislature already made the state one of the most abortion-friendly in the South. Now they want voters to lock unlimited abortion into the state constitution for good. One Catholic bishop...
Read →Illinois threatened to punish Catholic nuns simply for telling a dying patient not to kill herself. A federal judge shut that threat down less than a day before the law was...
Read →A Louisiana father secretly slipped abortion pills into his pregnant daughter's food. She went into premature labor, and that baby is now fighting for life in a Lafayette NICU. Now a federal...
Read →A Colorado abortion clinic killed eighteen-year-old Lexi Arguello during a botched abortion. That clinic has called an ambulance thirteen times since, and Colorado still refuses to inspect it. The same state that...
Read →Planned Parenthood is suing Wisconsin to let non-doctors perform abortions. The judge who might decide the case used to work for Planned Parenthood herself. Now that same court could decide whether unborn...
Read →Planned Parenthood keeps putting pornographic books in your grandkids' school library. A coalition of Texas grandmothers and moms started reading those very books out loud at school board meetings. One school board...
Read →Ohio voters wrote abortion into their state constitution just two years ago. Now the same "reproductive freedom" playbook has landed in pro-life Idaho. The group pushing it just took that ballot language...
Read →A North Carolina teenager gave birth into a toilet after ordering abortion pills online. She was 31 weeks pregnant, nearly three times past what the FDA allows. Her baby lived, and he's...
Read →On World Suicide Prevention Day, Wesley J. Smith appeared on The Drew Mariani Show to discuss the double standard in professional organizations that treat some suicides as requiring prevention while others as requiring assistance, such as assisted suicide and euthanasia.
Read →Wesley J. Smith appeared on In the Market with Janet Parshall on August 13, 2026, to discuss the case of Baby Gabriel, a baby recently born via his surrogate after his parents ordered the surrogate to abort. Smith discussed the specifics of the case as well as the ethical issues with surrogacy. “It treats babies as so many products,” Smith explained. Smith also discussed a recent article from a professional journal calling for wildfires to be treated as a public health emergency. Smith explains why labeling everything a “public health crisis” is a danger to individual freedom. “It’s what I cal
Read →We give thanks for Pope Francis and the SSPX.
Read →On April 20, Wesley J. Smith appeared on Ave Maria in the Afternoon, hosted by Marcus B. Peter, to discuss his recent article, “Bioethicists Argue That an Unborn Baby Is Merely a ‘Gestator’s’ Body Part.” Smith explains how the authors of a recent Journal of Medical Ethics article employed philosophy to redefine human life, defying the established definitions of science. He also explores the political and legislative implications if this changed definition is accepted. “We can make metaphysical claims, we can make moral claims,” Smith told Peter, “but they should not be such that we deny basic
Read →Wesley J. Smith appeared on The Ann and Phelim Scoop, hosted by Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer, to discuss his latest article, “Study: Mental Illness More Likely After Abortion Than After Childbirth.” Smith explains why the study is both surprising and significant, discusses the findings, and explores why these findings matter regardless of one’s stance on abortion.
Read →Wesley J. Smith joined Todd Wilken on Issues, Etc. to discuss euthanasia around the world. Smith discusses how various countries around the world, like Canada, New Zealand, and multiple nations in Europe, have embraced euthanasia. He also explains why this is dangerous to the societal value of human life. We’ve changed the purpose of society from protecting innocent life, for many people, to eliminating suffering. And if eliminating suffering becomes the prime purpose, that quickly mutates into eliminating the sufferer. Wesley J. Smith
Read →Wesley J. Smith appeared on the Ann and Phelim Scoop, hosted by Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer, to discuss the spread of euthanasia through the West. Comparing it to a metastasizing cancer, Wesley casts light on why euthanasia has become so popular, the state of euthanasia in Canada, the real reasons people seek euthanasia, and its devastating effects on human life.
Read →On April 3, 2025, Wesley J. Smith gave a presentation to Wisconsin Right to Life. After sharing how a friend’s suicide under the influence of the Hemlock Society propelled him into public opposition of the euthanasia movement, Smith explores the personal and societal consequences of embracing assisted suicide.
Read →Wesley J. Smith joined host Simon O’Connor on Family Matters, a show from Family First New Zealand, to discuss human exceptionalism. Together, they discuss what makes humans different from animals, the problem with mainstream bioethics today, why euthanasia is wrong, and more!
Read →Wesley J. Smith was on EpochTV’s American Thought Leaders this week in an episode dedicated to exploring the history and dangers of the assisted suicide movement. From EpochTV: “When a country or a state legalizes assisted suicide or euthanasia, it can no longer call itself anti-suicide, because it specifically approves some suicides. … It’s a very dangerous movement that is normalizing this kind of approach to dying as opposed to natural death.” In this episode, I sit down with Wesley J. Smith, a lawyer, public speaker, award-winning author, and chair of … Discovery Institute’s Center on Huma
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