Wesley J. Smith to Address Jan.26th Respect Life Prayer Breakfast on Euthanasia and End of Life Issues
Award winning author and lawyer Wesley J. Smith will be the principal speaker at the Respect Life Prayer Breakfast, Saturday, January 26, 2008. A senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, an attorney for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, and a special consultant for the Center for Bioethics and Culture, Wesley Smith will address Euthanasia and End of Life Issues.
Smith left the full time practice of law in 1985 to pursue a career in writing and public advocacy. He has authored or co-authored eleven books including: Power Over Pain, a consumer’s guide to obtaining good pain control with Eric M. Chevlen, M.D.
His book Forced Exit: The Slippery Slope from Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder (1997), is a criticism of the assisted suicide/euthanasia movement. The revised version is Forced Exit: Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide, and the New Duty to Die.
Smith’s columns on assisted suicide, bioethics, and other topics have appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, The Weekly Standard, National Review, First Things, Western Journal of Medicine and the American Journal of Bioethics.
"Secondhand Smoke," Smith's Web Log, defends the unique moral value and importance of human life and is read by thousands of readers each week.
Legislatures have called upon Wesley Smith as an expert witness. He appeared on thousands of television and radio talk/shows including ABC Nightline, Good Morning America, Larry King Live, CNN Crossfire, CNN World Report, the CBS Evening News, Coast to Coast and syndicated radio talk shows of Dennis Prager, Mike Gallagher and Tony Snow.
Married to the syndicated political columnist, Debra J. Saunders, he lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
There is still time to make a reservation for the Prayer Breakfast, call the Pro-Life Information Center at 570-343-5099.
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