Wesley J. Smith is a prolific author, lawyer, international lecturer and public speaker, one of the nation’s premier expert thinkers in bioengineering, a great defender of life, and a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism.

Mr. Smith left the full-time practice of law in 1985 to pursue a career in writing and public advocacy and has published hundreds of articles and opinion columns on issues such as the importance of being human (human exceptionalism), assisted suicide, bioethics, the morality of human cloning, the dangers of the animal-rights movement, anti-humanism within radical environmentalist advocacy, legal ethics, medical ethics, and public affairs.

Watch The War on Humans – a documentary featuring Wesley J. Smith: