Category: Ethics

Sad tired woman touching face having headache or depression

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
April 26, 2026

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
Mental illness, Mother, Suicide clinic, Switzerland}

Suicide Clinic Helping Grieving Mother Die Promotes Death-on-Demand Culture

_{She attempted to take her own life after her son died four years ago.} _{Wesley J. Smith
April 26, 2026

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Ethics}

It seems to me the only defense is to refuse assisted-suicide legalization, regardless of the cause.

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
April 24, 2026

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
Committee hearing, Disabled people, Euthanasia, HHS, Law, RFK Jr}

RFK Jr. Calls Assisted Suicide Laws ‘Abhorrent’

_{It targets people with disabilities and people who are struggling in their lives.} _{Wesley J. Smith
April 24, 2026

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Ethics}

We can’t “be a moral society around the globe” if assisted suicide/euthanasia “becomes institutionalized throughout our society.”

Ferocious Brown Bear Lunging Towards the Camera With Bared Teeth

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
April 23, 2026

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
Animals, Bill, Coexistence, Euthanasia, Public safety}

Activists Want Fewer Animal — but More Human — Deaths by Euthanasia

_{Dangerous animals that have attacked humans should be euthanized.} _{Wesley J. Smith
April 23, 2026

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Ethics}

A bill has been put in the hopper in the California State Senate promoting “coexistence” between people and wild animals.

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
April 20, 2026

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
Abortion, Baby, Bioethicists, Body part, Medical establishment, The Lancet}

Bioethicists Argue That an Unborn Baby is Merely a ‘Gestator’s’ Body Part

_{This ongoing debate is acutely relevant to future abortion public policy.} _{Wesley J. Smith
April 20, 2026

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Ethics}

The article, which is complex and arcane in the extreme, does not reach final moral conclusions about abortion, but it does give away the ultimate pro-abortion game that is afoot in this argumentation.

Euthanasia or mercy killing. Malpractice medicine. Syringe with needle and ampules set for assisted death. Bloody red closeup macro. Ethic or criminal debates poster of doctor assisted suicide

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
April 16, 2026

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
Autistic teenager, ethics, Euthanizia, Joyless, Netherlands, Psychiatrists}

Autistic Teenager Euthanized in the Netherlands

_{The boy, aged between 16 and 18, had described his life as “joyless.”} _{Wesley J. Smith
April 16, 2026

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Ethics}

The boy, aged between 16 and 18, had described his life as “joyless.” He’d struggled with anxiety and mood-related problems, and where he fit in, in the world.

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
April 10, 2026

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
Canada, ethics, Euthanasisa, Legalization, Mental illness}

Allow Euthanasia for the Mentally Ill or They Will Commit Suicide

_{The result will be more mentally ill Canadians dying by suicide.} _{Wesley J. Smith
April 10, 2026

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Ethics}

The idea here is that a “suicide” will be potentially messier and/or perhaps less successful than a doctor or nurse administering a lethal jab.

Child in womb, unborn little baby in utero of mother, development of human fetus during pregnancy, family planning pregnancy planning concept, endure pregnancy and easy childbirth, generative AI

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
March 30, 2026

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
Experiments, Full menstrual cycle, Human uterus, Organ transplant}

Human Uterus Kept Functioning Outside the Body for Experiments

_{The team members want to keep donated human uteruses alive long enough to see a full menstrual cycle.} _{Wesley J. Smith
March 30, 2026

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Ethics}

The plan ultimately is to manufacture human life solely for experimenting upon, toward the utilitarian end of making embryos and fetuses that might eventually be used for “fetal farming”.

In vitro image of a human fetus in the womb

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
March 27, 2026

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
Abortion, ethics, Medical professionals, Minors, Options}

Force Pregnant Girls to Have Abortions, Says Ethics Article

_{The authors coin a term, “antigirlism,” to describe young females as victims.} _{Wesley J. Smith
March 27, 2026

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Ethics}

Both opponents of abortion and liberal defenders of a woman’s right to control her own body make a mistake in relation to impregnated children.

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
March 9, 2026

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
Contagion phenomena, Dutch experiment, Euthanasia, Existential distress, Mentally ill}

Euthanasia of the Mentally Ill Increasing in the Netherlands

_{Requests for euthanasia on psychiatric grounds have risen sharply} _{Wesley J. Smith
March 9, 2026

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Ethics}

The Dutch experiment with psychiatric euthanasia, particularly in youth, can no longer be described as cautious, balanced, or exemplary.

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
February 19, 2026

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
Brain damage, Disabled patient, ethics, Life support, Objections}

U.K. Hospital Unilaterally Cuts Off Life Support of Disabled Patient over Family Objections

_{The 68-year-old suffered extensive brain damage} _{Wesley J. Smith
February 19, 2026

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Ethics}

What makes life worth living does not require unique medical expertise that only a physician can provide. It is an issue of religious faith, philosophy, morality, and personal belief.

A close-up view of a bunch of blue pills, showcasing a background medicine concept.

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
February 12, 2026

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
Assisted Suicide, Current safeguards, Mystery of death, No pathological diagnosis, Relatives shocked}

Mentally Ill Woman Accessed Assisted Suicide in Oregon

_{A troubling look at how systemic gaps enabled a vulnerable woman to obtain lethal drugs unchecked.} _{Wesley J. Smith
February 12, 2026

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Ethics}

They learned that Mihich’s body bore no signs of illness; she had been suffering, but she had not been on the verge of death.

A young woman holding the hand of an old woman in a hospital bed, black and white

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
February 11, 2026

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
Assisted Suicide, ethics, Legal, Liberal agenda, Newsom, Tessa Newsom}

Did Gavin Newsom Witness His Mother’s Murder?

_{A memoir reveals the governor’s most personal account yet: his mother’s decision to end her life.} _{Wesley J. Smith
February 11, 2026

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Ethics}

Despite the obvious emotional pain caused in witnessing his mother’s killing, Newsom says that he strongly supports legalizing assisted suicide.

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
February 5, 2026

Categorized
Ethics, Medicine and Health

Tagged
Assisted dying, Euthanasia, Face transplant, Spain}

Woman Euthanized and Her Face Transplanted in Spain

_{Do you see what happened? There were apparently no efforts at suicide prevention to keep the patient in life} _{Wesley J. Smith
February 5, 2026

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Ethics, Medicine and Health}

From what the story discloses, the primary focus of the medical team became the 3-D planning and preparation for the surgery after the killing.

professional health care researchers working in life of medical science laboratory, technology of medicine chemistry lap experiment for hospital

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
February 2, 2026

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
Experiments, Mice, Pancreatic cancer, research}

Animal Research Points to Potential Pancreatic Cancer Cure

_{Balancing compassion with the scientific realities behind lifesaving medical progress} _{Wesley J. Smith
February 2, 2026

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Ethics}

I am eager for the number of animals used in experiments to be reduced as much as possible — but only to an extent consistent with assuring scientific progress.

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
January 23, 2026

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
Abortion, ethics, Fetal tissue, NIH}

NIH Bans Funding of Fetal Tissue Research

_{A second major research restriction signals a broader shift in federal biomedical policy} _{Wesley J. Smith
January 23, 2026

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Ethics}

But abortions are about intentionally destroying unborn babies, not natural death. For many, that’s a distinction with a huge difference.

Modern day slavery, illegal trade of human organs on the black market and forced organ harvesting of death row inmates concept theme with a liver, heart and kidney with price tags and a barcode

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
January 7, 2026

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
Bioethisist, DDR, Lawrence J Masek, Organs}

Bioethicist: Let surgeons kill patients during organ harvesting

_{What a new wave of bioethical arguments means for patients, doctors, and the future of organ donation} _{Wesley J. Smith
January 7, 2026

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Ethics}

Jumping on a grenade to save other soldiers is not the same as the soldiers throwing that person on the grenade, which would be more akin to a surgeon killing for organs.

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
December 27, 2025

Categorized
Ethics, Law, Medicine and Health

Tagged
Brain organoids, Fetal farming, Organ transplants}

How Far Will Experimenting on the Unborn Go?

_{We have been told by some bioethicists that a born baby is no different morally than a fetus, so why stop there?} _{Wesley J. Smith
December 27, 2025

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Ethics, Law, Medicine and Health}

Some will ask, if we can artificially gestate fetuses to that stage, why not harvest them for organs? That has already been proposed. Repeatedly.

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
December 19, 2025

Categorized
Ethics, Law, Medicine and Health

Tagged
Kathy Hochul, New York State assisted suicide law}

NY Governor Hochul to Sign Assisted-Suicide Legalization Bill

_{Liberalization started even before the bill was signed} _{Wesley J. Smith
December 19, 2025

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Ethics, Law, Medicine and Health}

People with disabilities know that. once assisted suicide becomes normalized, the categories of killable people will expand well beyond the terminally ill.

Human kidney and money. Buy and sell human organ, healthcare, medical expenses concept

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
December 14, 2025

Categorized
Ethics, Medicine and Health, Politics

Tagged
Black market organ donations, China, Nigeria}

Purchasers of Black-Market Human Organs Often Complicit in Murder

_{A story from Nigeria sheds sobering light} _{Wesley J. Smith
December 14, 2025

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Ethics, Medicine and Health, Politics}

In addition to imprisoning the operators of these criminal conspiracies, we should pass laws explicitly making it a crime to purchase organs from overseas

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
November 22, 2025

Categorized
Ethics, Medicine and Health

Tagged
Euthanasia in Britain, Forced Exit (1997), Hospice care}

U.K. Hospices Collapsing as Government Pushes Assisted Suicide

_{Assisted suicide/euthanasia will surely be seen as a splendid way to save money by erasing expensive patients, even if not terminally ill} _{Wesley J. Smith
November 22, 2025

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Ethics, Medicine and Health}

When researching Forced Exit (1997), I found that the hospice sector in the euthanasia-friendly Netherlands was stunted, compared with other countries.