Wesley J. Smith, a Discovery Institute senior fellow, says there’s a war going on against human beings. It’s a campaign to erase the divide between humans, animals, even plants. As Smith demonstrates with daily reporting at National Review Online, the struggle to uproot "Human Exceptionalism" results not only in lunatic exaltations of the rights of animals and plants — garden peas, if you please! — but in grotesque abuses of human life and dignity.

If plants and animals are "people," what happens to the way we treat actual human beings with our weaknesses and vulnerabilities? Belgium and the Netherlands are exploring the frontiers of euthanasia, with "mercy killings" for the blind and anorexics. Americans may think, "It couldn’t happen here." Could it?

That’s the subject of today’s Science & Culture Update on the Medved Show.

Join Michael Medved, Wesley Smith and Center for Science & Culture associate director Dr. John West, at 1 pm Pacific time or 4 pm Eastern, for an important discussion. Listen to the Michael Medved Show live on the radio, or online by going here. See the trailer for the forthcoming documentary with Wesley Smith, The War on Humans, by clicking here.