{"id":10095,"date":"2008-12-11T00:12:24","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T00:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pro_life_group_concerned_at_tv_depiction_of_assisted_suicide\/"},"modified":"2008-12-11T00:12:24","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T00:12:24","slug":"pro_life_group_concerned_at_tv_depiction_of_assisted_suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10095","title":{"rendered":"Pro-life group concerned at TV depiction of assisted suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A British pro-life group has expressed concern after it was revealed that a TV documentary is to show a man dying in front of the cameras.<\/p>\n<p>The TV show, on the Sky 1 satellite channel follows the assisted suicide of a man at the Dignitas suicide centre in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Ozimic, political secretary of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), commented: &#8220;We are concerned that focusing upon one particular case will have a disproportionate effect upon the debate on assisted suicide, skewing viewer&#8217;s perceptions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany people, including patients themselves, often don&#8217;t know that palliative care is highly successful in alleviating the symptoms of motor neurone disease&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiousintelligence.co.uk\/news\/?NewsID=3471\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British pro-life group has expressed concern after it was revealed that a TV documentary is to show a man dying in front of the cameras. The TV show, on the Sky 1 satellite channel follows the assisted suicide of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10095\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,199,200,104,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-europe","category-health-medicine","category-life-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}