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A woman (C) holds a sign in support of assisted suicide while others demonstrate against it outside the B.C. Court of Appeal on Oct. 10, 2013. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck
In my first ever anti-euthanasia piece, which was published in Newsweek in 1993, I warned that legalizing assisted suicide would lead to organ harvesting of those killed by doctors “as a plum to society.” For my trouble, I was called alarmist and hysterical—and those were the nice letters.
Award-winning author Wesley J. Smith is host of the Humanize Podcast (Humanize.today), chairman of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism and a consultant to the Patients Rights Council. His latest book is “Culture of Death: The Age of ‘Do Harm’ Medicine.”
