TRU-Life Fridays: Wesley J. Smith

Published: May 23, 2014, 10 p.m.

b'Opposing Obamacare is racist? \\xa0Black women deserve a free cup of water in a gas station? \\xa0Thowing a "fiesta" is racist if you\'re not Latino? \\xa0Lately, issues of racism and poor race relations have dominated the news in a way that has not been seen in recent past decades. \\xa0This is surely a pro-life issue, as racial disharmony speaks of underlying views of human worth and valuation. \\xa0We will be discussing just how we got to the disharmony we see and the true pro-life position that marks real progress.\\n\\nWesley J. Smith, expert on biothethics and life ethics, will be on to discuss his latest short film, "The War on Humans". \\xa0Wesley is author of The Culture of Death and Forced Exit\\xa0and writes regularly for National Review Online\'s Human Exceptionalism column. \\xa0\\n\\nFrom his bio:\\nAttorney and award winning author Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute\\u2019s Center on Human Exceptionalism. He is also a consultant to the Patients Rights Council, and a special consultant for the Center for Bioethics and Culture. In May 2004, because of his work in bioethics, he was named by the\\xa0National Journal\\xa0as one of the nation\\u2019s top expert thinkers in bioengineering. In 2008, the Human Life Foundation named him a Great Defender of Life for his work against assisted suicide and euthanasia.'