Wesley Smith - Against Assisted Suicide
Award winning author Wesley J. Smith is a
legal consultant to the Patients Rights Council, a senior fellow in Human
Rights and Bioethics at the Discovery Institute, and a special consultant for
the Center for Bioethics and Culture. In May 2004, because of his work in
bioethics, he was named by the National Journal as
one of the nation’s top expert thinkers in bioengineering. Smith left the full
time practice of law in 1985 to pursue a career in writing and public advocacy.
He is the author or coauthor of eleven books. Smith co-authored (with Eric M.
Chevlen, MD) Power over Pain: How to Get the Pain Control
You Need. His other books include Forced
Exit: Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide and the New Duty to Die and Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America. He
formerly collaborated with Ralph Nader, co-authoring four books with the
consumer advocate.
Smith has published hundreds of articles and opinion columns that have appeared nationally and internationally in such publications as Newsweek, New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, The Weekly Standard, National Review, Mother Jones, The National Post (Canada), The Age (Australia), The Telegraph (United Kingdom), Western Journal of Medicine, and the American Journal of Bioethics. He has also been published in regional publications throughout the United States and internationally in newspapers in the UK, Italy, Australia and Canada. He has appeared on thousands of television or radio talk/interview programs, including such national shows as ABC Nightline, Good Morning America, Larry King Live, CNN Crossfire, CNN World Report, and the CBS Evening News.
Smith is an international lecturer and public speaker appearing frequently at political, university, medical, legal, disability rights, bioethics, religious, and community gatherings across the United States, Europe, Mexico, Canada, South Africa, Australia and the United Nations. He is also a lawyer and consultant for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide which is a non-profit educational organization that concerns itself with the issues of euthanasia, doctor-prescribed suicide, advance directives, assisted suicide proposals, "right-to-die" cases, disability rights, pain control, and related bioethical issues. They oppose the legalization of euthanasia.
Link to Dr. Jack Kevorkian - For Assisted Suicide
Smith has published hundreds of articles and opinion columns that have appeared nationally and internationally in such publications as Newsweek, New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, The Weekly Standard, National Review, Mother Jones, The National Post (Canada), The Age (Australia), The Telegraph (United Kingdom), Western Journal of Medicine, and the American Journal of Bioethics. He has also been published in regional publications throughout the United States and internationally in newspapers in the UK, Italy, Australia and Canada. He has appeared on thousands of television or radio talk/interview programs, including such national shows as ABC Nightline, Good Morning America, Larry King Live, CNN Crossfire, CNN World Report, and the CBS Evening News.
Smith is an international lecturer and public speaker appearing frequently at political, university, medical, legal, disability rights, bioethics, religious, and community gatherings across the United States, Europe, Mexico, Canada, South Africa, Australia and the United Nations. He is also a lawyer and consultant for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide which is a non-profit educational organization that concerns itself with the issues of euthanasia, doctor-prescribed suicide, advance directives, assisted suicide proposals, "right-to-die" cases, disability rights, pain control, and related bioethical issues. They oppose the legalization of euthanasia.
Link to Dr. Jack Kevorkian - For Assisted Suicide
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