Alzheimers, ALS and Euthanasia, Nature Rights – Wesley Smith, 9/23/25 (2662)
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🗓️ 23 September 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Wesley J. Smith of the Discovery Institute
Wesley Smith’s National Review Columns
Culture of Death: The Age of “Do Harm” Medicine
Forced Exit: Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide and the New Duty to Die
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| 0:00.0 | This is Molly Hemingway, encouraging you to listen to my favorite podcast, issues, etc. |
| 0:07.3 | Every day you get in-depth interviews with host Todd Wilkin asking expert guests, substantive, thought-provoking questions on all of the important news and issues of our day. |
| 0:18.7 | The expert guests are in culture, law, ethics, philosophy, theology, |
| 0:23.1 | and apologetics. Expert guests? Expansive topics. Always extolling Christ. Issues, etc. |
| 0:36.2 | The notion that rights don't come from laws and don't come from the government, but come from the creator, that's what the Iranian government believes. |
| 0:45.3 | These rights are inalienable. Now why? Because they come not from the government, but from God. |
| 0:52.3 | If the government creates our rights, it can take them away. |
| 0:57.0 | So the best thing we can do is to richly emphasize and celebrate the natural human family, |
| 1:03.0 | that marriage between one man and one woman is good, that children are a great blessing. |
| 1:09.0 | The sin of worry is ultimately the sin that God is not going to do my will. |
| 1:15.7 | That's what worry is. |
| 1:17.2 | Iowa State University computer science graduates, love, issues, etc. |
| 1:25.2 | I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that. |
| 1:30.1 | Many argue against a slippery slope arguments as though there never exists a situation where |
| 1:38.6 | one thing inevitably leads to another. In the case of euthanasia, we have learned slowly over time that one |
| 1:46.5 | thing does lead to another. When people argue for euthanasia in one instance, they are already |
| 1:52.3 | preparing to argue for euthanasia in another and another and perhaps in all instances. |
| 1:58.9 | Welcome back to issues, et cetera. I'm Todd Wilkin. |
| 2:01.7 | Thanks for tuning us in live on this Tuesday afternoon, the 23rd of September. |
| 2:06.1 | Wesley Smith joins us to talk about euthanasia and dementia and ALS patients, |
| 2:09.5 | also a little bit on nature's rights and a symposium held at Harvard University. |
| 2:14.2 | Then Lyman Stone will be our guest for a conversation on conservative and |
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