Wesley J. Smith to Speak
at CBC Dinner April 30th

By Jim Day

On Saturday, April 30th, the St. Louis Center for Bioethics and Culture (CBC) is hosting a ‘must attend’ dinner featuring Wesley J. Smith who will be addressing a number of issues including assisted suicide, cloning, stem cell research, and futile care. The title of his presentation is Creating a Disposable Caste of People. The event, which begins at 6 p.m., will be held at the First Evangelical Free Church, 1375 Carman Road, in Manchester, MO and reservations must be made not later than April 20th to attend.

For those not familiar with the Center for Bioethics and Culture, the CBC is composed of doctors, nurses, ethicists, clergy, educators, and other professionals coming together to educate and equip people in the bioethics issues of the 21st Century; issues such as cloning, embryonic stem cell research, assisted suicide, euthanasia, reproductive technology, genetic technologies, nanotechnology and cybernetics.

Wesley Smith serves as senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, and attorney and consultant for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide. He is an international lecturer and public speaker appearing frequently at political, university, medical, legal, bioethics, and community gatherings across the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Australia. Smith's writings and opinion columns have appeared in such national and regional news publications as Newsweek, the New York Times, the Weekly Standard magazine, National Review, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the New York Post, First Things, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Detroit News. In addition, Mr. Smith wrote the article on assisted suicide for Microsoft’s on-line encyclopedia, Encarta.

Also speaking that evening will be Missouri 85th District State Representative Jim Lembke. Representative Lembke will be providing a legislative update regarding pending Missouri legislation regarding embryonic stem cell research and cloning.

Tickets to attend this important dinner event are $20 per person and reservations, as stated earlier, must be made by April 20th. Those wishing to attend should make checks payable to the CBC and should be mailed to: CBC, PO Box 6134, Chesterfield, MO., 63006. Reservations may also be made online through the CBC’s website (www.thecbc.org) by following the link to the St. Louis page. For additional information call (636) 207-7540 or email barbara.quigley@thecbc.org.