Health Rationing for the Greater Good
[UPDATE BELOW] I discussed the creepy side of President Obama’s “science czar” here. But there are more creepy things in the cabinet. The Wall Street Journal reports that the president’s health policy...
View ArticleThe New Colonialism: Renting Wombs
It was once said that the sun never set on the British Empire. The Brits colonized vast areas of the earth, civilizing exotic places with the likes of afternoon tea and cricket. Oh, and happily using...
View ArticleIndia Is To Surrogacy As Detroit Was To Cars
That’s the conclusion Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute, has come to. The surrogacy business in India is booming. While statistics are hard to come by, according to one...
View ArticleBelgium Decides That Killing Children Is Okay
Like most of you, I have experience of being a child and a teenager. I’m also a parent, and thus have much experience trying to reason with children and teens.When I was 16, I was as straight-laced as...
View ArticleRadio Free Acton: Wesley J. Smith on Human Exceptionalism
Are you special? Do you have intrinsic dignity? Are “human rights” something that you have by virtue of the fact that you’re a human being, or are you no different from any other creature on the...
View ArticleSurrogacy: A Knot That Can’t Be Untangled
I’ll say it again: surrogacy is a bad idea. It’s bad for the child, it’s bad for women, it’s bad for families. Even when everything goes “well,” it’s still a situation where a woman has been used for...
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