Do-Harm Medicine

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Wesley Smith, lawyer and an award winning author, recognized as an expert thinker in the field of bioengineering and a "Great Defender of Life" for his work against assisted suicide and euthanasia, joins us today as we bask in the glories of the one-star Best Western conference room. Wesley is calling in from Cali - how fortunate he should be deprived the novelties of weak coffee and Todd's disgruntled face as he eats another day-old donut. Of course, the trials we face here pale in comparison with today's topic. Wesley bears much knowledge on bioethics, a field of study that tests the ethics and philosophical implications of medical practices and procedures. With the sanctity of life increasingly questioned, "do-harm medicine" is growing in practice. We live in a backwards world where death is more valued than life, and the disabled not worthy of all the medical efforts. Don't be surprised to find yourself catching your jaw during this one!Links:"The Whispers Of Strangers" by Wesley Smith The Patients Rights Council websiteFree Stuff:We are giving away copies of Wesley Smith's book "Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America" this week! Click here to enter to win a copy!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.
0:25.6	Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:30.7	Let's join this today's podcast. I'm here with my co-host, Todd Pruitt and Amy Bird, as always.
0:50.6	We're especially privileged today to have on the line Wesley Smith, who has written a number of books dealing with the complicated field of bioethics.
1:03.0	Gone of the days in the church where the most complicated ethical question you were likely to face was maybe one about sex before marriage or or abortion.
1:13.4	The world of medicine has become incredibly complicated and incredibly entwined with the world of politics and social thought over the last decade or two.
1:26.1	And many Christians now find themselves facing all kinds of complicated
1:31.4	challenges for which many of us, and include those of us who are pastors in that, many of us feel
1:36.7	very ill-equipped to address. Wesley Smith is someone who's written, as I say, a number of very
1:43.9	helpful and important books on issues such as animal rights and euthanasia.
1:50.5	So it's a real pleasure to have you on the program with us today, Wesley.
1:54.3	Well, thanks for having me. I appreciate it.
1:56.3	Thanks. I wonder if you'd like to start by just telling us how you got into this field, because I know you started off as a lawyer, but you moved into this area really due to some fairly significant personal experiences.
2:09.7	Yes, I got into this mess, because back in 1992, I had a friend who committed suicide under the influence of Hemlock Society literature.
2:21.0	Hemlock Society at that time was the most notable and prominent assisted suicide advocacy group.
2:28.1	It's now changed its name to the more euphemistic compassion and choices, but it still has the same deadly goal,
2:35.0	which is legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide.
2:38.0	My friend was not terminally ill.
2:41.0	She had leukemia, which was treatable.
2:45.0	She had some pain.
2:46.0	She wasn't taking her medications.
2:48.0	She needed a hip replacement that was barely limping, but she
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