AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Revised and Updated: "FORCED EXIT".(Book Review)
It's no secret to anyone who peruses Today's News & Views or National Right to Life News that NRLC is a big, big fan of Wesley Smith. His essays glisten with insight and he helps his readers sense the true dimensions of the evil of euthanasia and assisted suicide. An added treat is his sparkling prose, which is a delight to read.
Smith will speak at the annual NRL Convention, held this year in St. Louis, July 3-5. As it happens his appearance coincides with publication of a paperback edition of Smith's 1997 book, Forced Exit, revised and updated.
Forced Exit is one of a series of remarkable books and thoughtful articles that Smith - - an attorney and senior fellow at the Discovery Institute - - has written that shears through the layers of misinformation and emotionalism that are the assisted suicide movement's most potent weapons.
Smith shows us that the assumptions and givens that the pro-death forces are trying to insinuate into public conversation and into public policy are like unexploded shells. Once they are buried, it is only a matter of time before they go off, killing not only the currently intended victims (the "permanently unconscious," for example) but bystanders (other categories of vulnerable people such as the frail elderly who are confused) who are next in line as well.
Smith insightfully illustrates that once respect for all human life is scissored out, the only question is, "Who is next?" This depletion of our common humanity is masked both with the thinnest pretenses, such as "respect for autonomy" but ...
- Forced Exit: A Slippery Slope from Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder.
- Magazine article from: The Women's Review of Books Shear, Marie November 1, 1997 700+ words
...and unsettling. Forced Exit typifies the "slippery...To Wesley J. Smith, proponents are...pointless. But Forced Exit is riddled with...Reagan in his prime, Smith careens calmly among...virtually absent from Forced Exit; they vanish like...disabled young woman, ...
- Euthanasia in America - past, present, and future: a review of a Merciful End...
- Magazine article from: Michigan Law Review Larson, Edward J. May 1, 2004 700+ words
...2003. Pp. xix, 250. $28. FORCED EXIT: THE SLIPPERY SLOPE FROM ASSISTED...LEGALIZED MURDER. By Wesley J. Smith. Dallas: Spence Publ'g Co. 2003...End and Wesley J. Smith's (5) Forced Exit, should become apparent later...
- Forced Exit: The Slippery Slope from Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder.
- Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life Uhlmann, Michael M. January 1, 1998 700+ words
...cease and desist? Not very, says Wesley J. Smith, who argues convincingly in Forced Exit that the so-called "quality-of-life...the culture of death." Assisted suicide, Smith says, is only the opening wedge of an argument...
- Forced exit; euthanasia, assisted suicide and the new duty to die. (reprint,...
- Magazine article from: SciTech Book News December 1, 2006 700+ words
1594031193 Forced exit; euthanasia, assisted suicide and the new duty to die. (reprint, 1997) Smith, Wesley J. Encounter Books 2006 308 pages...the success of his 2002 Culture of Death, Smith revives an earlier volume (originally published...
- Forced Exit: The Slippery Slope from Assisted Suicide to Legalize Murder.
- Magazine article from: Issues in Law & Medicine June 22, 1997 700+ words
Smith, Wesley J. New York: Random House, Inc...premises already have been proven false. Smith demonstrates that most patients and their...patients the medical treatment they want. Smith argues cogently that legalizing euthanasia...
- Football: MONEY MEN FORCED EXIT.(Sport)
- Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) October 10, 2002 700+ words
PRESSURE from the money men on Sunderland's plc board led to the sacking of manager Peter Reid. The club's plc chairman Bryan Sander-son has revealed poor league form and dwindling gates prompted the decision to end Reid's seven-and-a-half year reign on Wearside. Sanderson claimed the board had
- RUUD BEHAVIOUR FORCED EXIT.
- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) August 4, 2006 700+ words
Byline: IAN LADYMAN SIR ALEX FERGUSON last night revealed he drove Ruud van Nistelrooy out of Manchester United because his striker could not cope with being dropped. Many United fans are still stunned that United manager Ferguson sold his record scorer to Real Madrid for [pounds sterling]12million
- Governor's forced exit; Thailand's central-bank war.(Finance and...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) June 2, 2001 700+ words
GOVERNMENTS everywhere, when faced with a slump, complain about tight money and blame the central bank. But Thailand's prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, made the opposite complaint. He urged the central bank to raise interest rates and shore up the currency. On May 29th, having lost the battle of
