{"id":113755,"date":"2022-07-11T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=113755"},"modified":"2022-07-11T18:48:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T22:48:28","slug":"cof-e-general-synod-votes-to-leave-the-law-on-assisted-suicide-unchanged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=113755","title":{"rendered":"Cof E General Synod votes to leave the law on Assisted Suicide unchanged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following a debate, members backed a Private Member\u2019s Motion (PMM) paying tribute to the \u2018enormous and untiring\u2019 efforts of health professionals working in palliative and end of life care. <\/p>\n<p>They called on the Government to guarantee adequate funding and resourcing of palliative care services to ensure the highest possible standards of care for all. Members further affirmed that the law on Assisted Suicide should remain unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>General Synod member Dr Simon Eyre, from the Diocese of Chichester, introducing the PMM, called for the Government to ensure adequate funding for hospices over the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>He said palliative care was currently \u2018insufficiently comprehensive\u2019 with only one palliative care consultant per 100,000 of the population.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/media-and-news\/press-releases\/more-funding-needed-palliative-care-general-synod-hears-debate\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Synod rejects assisted dying by a large majority &#8211; via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ChurchTimes<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YXZ508Ss4b\">https:\/\/t.co\/YXZ508Ss4b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Religion Media Centre (@RelMedCentre) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RelMedCentre\/status\/1546492658205577219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a debate, members backed a Private Member\u2019s Motion (PMM) paying tribute to the \u2018enormous and untiring\u2019 efforts of health professionals working in palliative and end of life care. They called on the Government to guarantee adequate funding and resourcing<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=113755\">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":[389,438,104,114,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-death-burial-funerals","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113755","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=113755"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113770,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113755\/revisions\/113770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}