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Monday, August 28, 2017
Penna Dexter hosts today's show and her first guest is Wesley J. Smith, senior fellow in Human Rights and Bioethics at the Discovery Institute. He discusses the issue of physician assisted suicide. In the second hour, we hear from Carrie Severino, chief counsel and policy director at Judicial Crisis Network. She tells us more about gridlock reform.
Penna Dexter hosts today's show and her first guest is Wesley J. Smith, senior fellow in Human Rights and Bioethics at the Discovery Institute. He discusses the issue of physician assisted suicide. In the second hour, we hear from Carrie Severino, chief counsel and policy director at Judicial Crisis Network. She tells us more about gridlock reform.

HOST

Penna Dexter

Penna Dexter

Co-Host — Point of View

For eight years Penna Dexter served as co-host on Point of View with founder Marlin Maddoux. Following his passing in 2004, she has served as co-host and frequently as Kerby Anderson’s guest host. Her...

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Wesley J. Smith

Wesley J. Smith

Lawyer and Author — Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism

Lawyer and award winning author, Wesley J. Smith, is a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism. He is also a consultant to the Patients Rights Council. In May 2004, b...

Lawyer and award winning author, Wesley J. Smith, is a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism. He is also a consultant to the Patients Rights Council. In May 2004, because of his work in bioethics, Smith was named one of the nation’s premier expert thinkers in bioengineering by the National Journal.

Carrie Severino

Carrie Severino

Chief Counsel and Policy Director — Judicial Crisis Network

Carrie Severino is chief counsel and policy director of the Judicial Crisis Network. In that capacity she has testified before Congress on assorted constitutional issues and briefed Senators on judici...

Carrie Severino is chief counsel and policy director of the Judicial Crisis Network. In that capacity she has testified before Congress on assorted constitutional issues and briefed Senators on judicial nominations. Mrs. Severino has been extensively quoted in the media and regularly appeared on television, including MSNBC, FOX, CNN, C-SPAN and ABC’s This Week. She has written and spoken on a wide range of judicial issues, particularly the constitutional limits on government, the federal nomination process, and state judicial selection. Mrs. Severino regularly files briefs in high-profile Supreme Court cases. In the 2013 term those briefs included Hobby Lobby v. Burwell, arguing in favor of religious freedom; McCullen v. Coakley, the First Amendment challenge to Massachusetts' abortion clinic-buffer zone law, and Schuette v. BAMN, defending states' rights to engage in race-blind higher education admissions. She has also filed briefs in the Halbig and King cases challenging the Obama Administration’s implementation of Obamacare. She was previously a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and to Judge David B. Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School, cum laude, of Duke University, and holds a Master’s degree in Linguistics from Michigan State University.

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