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https://www.aoiusa.org A Research and Educational Organization that engages the cultural issues of the day within the Orthodox Christian Tradition Fri, 16 Oct 2015 12:53:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/why-our-medical-elite-support-planned-parenthood/ https://www.aoiusa.org/why-our-medical-elite-support-planned-parenthood/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2015 12:34:29 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=14205 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Source: Ancient Faith Radio By Wesley J. Smith It’s not only fetuses and babies that are viewed broadly in bioethics as “killable” and perhaps even “harvestable.” There is increasing advocacy, although it is important to emphasize that this is not yet happening, for killing those with profound cognitive impairments for their organs. I could adduce […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/why-our-medical-elite-support-planned-parenthood/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-will-progressives-require-doctors-to-kill/ https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-will-progressives-require-doctors-to-kill/#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2015 22:54:19 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=14135 https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-will-progressives-require-doctors-to-kill/feed/ 3 https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-obamacare-lives/ https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-obamacare-lives/#comments Thu, 08 Nov 2012 02:00:06 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=12365 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Source: National Review Online | Wesley J. Smith The people of the United States ensured an Obamacare future by apparently reelecting President Obama and maintaining a Democratic Senate. Here are the immediate consequences: 1. The IPAB will go into effect: As I have written, IPAB is the cornerstone of a planned bureaucratic state. The only […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-obamacare-lives/feed/ 3 https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-freedom-of-worships-assault-on-freedom-of-religion/ https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-freedom-of-worships-assault-on-freedom-of-religion/#comments Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:03:34 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=12050 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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– From the essay: Freedom of religion means the right to live according to one’s own faith, that is, to “manifest” our religion or belief in practice, both “in public or private,” without interference from the state. Strident secularism is on the march and freedom of religion is the target, with secularist warriors attempting to […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-freedom-of-worships-assault-on-freedom-of-religion/feed/ 6 https://www.aoiusa.org/obamacare-ruling-reflects-technocratic-imperative/ https://www.aoiusa.org/obamacare-ruling-reflects-technocratic-imperative/#comments Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:17:53 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11961 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Why is anyone surprised? Obamacare was never going to be overturned. Not that it is constitutional, as the Constitution was originally conceived. It surely isn’t. But that Constitution has been terminally ill for a long time. Now it is dead. Why would the Supreme Court’s conservative chief justice rewrite the individual mandate’s penalty to be […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/obamacare-ruling-reflects-technocratic-imperative/feed/ 9 https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-a-dark-mirror-on-society/ https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-a-dark-mirror-on-society/#comments Sat, 04 Jun 2011 19:29:55 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10102 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Source: The Corner The death of Jack Kevorkian by natural causes has a certain irony, but it is not surprising. His driving motive was always obsession with death. Indeed, as he described in his book Prescription Medicide, Kevorkian’s overriding purpose in his assisted-suicide campaign was pure quackery, e.g., to obtain a societal license to engage […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-a-dark-mirror-on-society/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-of-embryonic-stem-cell-research-politics-and-the-rule-of-law/ https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-of-embryonic-stem-cell-research-politics-and-the-rule-of-law/#respond Thu, 19 May 2011 22:16:18 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10036 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Source: First Things The Center for Bioethics and Culture asked me to expand upon comments I have made here noting that the politics of ESCR seem to have the power to supersede the rule of law. Not being the shy and retiring type, I immediately agreed.  The result is now out.  From “Embryonic Stem Cell […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-of-embryonic-stem-cell-research-politics-and-the-rule-of-law/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-george-calciu-first-century-christian-in-the-twentieth-century/ https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-george-calciu-first-century-christian-in-the-twentieth-century/#comments Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:16:08 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9820 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Wesley J. Smith is a frequent commentator on the AOI Observer. Source: First Things | Wesley J. Smith Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. I had no idea. To be more precise, before I converted to Eastern Orthodoxy, I knew that the Orthodox Church had […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-george-calciu-first-century-christian-in-the-twentieth-century/feed/ 4 https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-the-disturbing-rehabilitation-of-dr-kevorkian/ https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-the-disturbing-rehabilitation-of-dr-kevorkian/#comments Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:41:40 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=8815 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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By Wesley J. Smith | Source: The Corner When Jack Kevorkian came to the nation’s attention in the 1990s, reporters at first depicted him — correctly — as a macabre and megalomaniacal promoter of death. But he was remade into a popular icon, becoming a pet guest on 60 Minutes, treated to uncharacteristically softball interviews […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-the-disturbing-rehabilitation-of-dr-kevorkian/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/8572/ https://www.aoiusa.org/8572/#comments Wed, 29 Dec 2010 18:20:24 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=8572 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Much is being made throughout the blogosphere and on talk radio about the new Medicare regulation that compensates physicians for discussing end of life options with their patients. As I said yesterday over at The Corner, these are not “death panels.” A Forbes blogger makes the same point–in a too caustic fashion, since the original […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/8572/feed/ 10 https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-peter-singer-says-full-moral-status-not-earned-by-babies-%e2%80%9cuntil-after-2-years%e2%80%9d/ https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-peter-singer-says-full-moral-status-not-earned-by-babies-%e2%80%9cuntil-after-2-years%e2%80%9d/#comments Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:13:25 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=8390 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Dostoevsky: When men stop believing in God, they will believe anything. I was alerted by Nat Hentoff about an assertion made by Peter Singer–as reported in the Catholic Eye–at a Princeton conference around the abortion question, in which he claims that human beings don’t possess full moral status until after the age of two. I […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-peter-singer-says-full-moral-status-not-earned-by-babies-%e2%80%9cuntil-after-2-years%e2%80%9d/feed/ 5 https://www.aoiusa.org/bioethicist-teaches-doctor-to-%e2%80%9cthink-bioethically%e2%80%9d/ https://www.aoiusa.org/bioethicist-teaches-doctor-to-%e2%80%9cthink-bioethically%e2%80%9d/#respond Sun, 07 Nov 2010 23:01:20 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=8304 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Over at Second Hand Smoke, a secret camera filmed a conversation between a bioethicist and a doctor about how “thinking bioethically” means it is okay to kill babies.]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/bioethicist-teaches-doctor-to-%e2%80%9cthink-bioethically%e2%80%9d/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/some-thoughts-on-the-wesley-j-smith-lecture-at-st-tikhons-seminary/ https://www.aoiusa.org/some-thoughts-on-the-wesley-j-smith-lecture-at-st-tikhons-seminary/#comments Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:52:27 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7919 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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I listened to Wesley J. Smith’s lecture a few days ago and have been thinking about it ever since (listen to it here). Some thoughts in no particular order: 1. It is very good that St. Tikhon’s invited Smith to speak for several reasons. First it introduces the seminarians to the concrete questions debated in […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/some-thoughts-on-the-wesley-j-smith-lecture-at-st-tikhons-seminary/feed/ 7 https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-smith-on-peter-singer/ https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-smith-on-peter-singer/#comments Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:27:40 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6949 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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From First Thoughts by Wesley J. Smith: Peter Singer Sympathetic to Human Extinction as Way of Avoiding Suffering Peter Singer blogs at the New York Times about a new book (Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence, by David Benetar) that apparently advocates human extinction as a way of preventing human […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-smith-on-peter-singer/feed/ 14 https://www.aoiusa.org/a-unified-orthodox-church-can-speak-with-clarity/ https://www.aoiusa.org/a-unified-orthodox-church-can-speak-with-clarity/#respond Sun, 23 May 2010 11:49:22 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6739 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Read below and you’ll see one reason why we need a unified Orthodox Church in America. Wesley J. Smith, human rights activist and occasional contributor to AOI Observer, warns about a bill winding through congress that will surreptitiously fund human cloning. We could have something to say about that. A friend of mine, an Orthodox […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/a-unified-orthodox-church-can-speak-with-clarity/feed/ 0