{"id":27344,"date":"2011-07-19T15:16:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T15:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/father_john_flynn-pressured_to_die_euthanasia_push_continues\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T15:16:23","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T15:16:23","slug":"father_john_flynn-pressured_to_die_euthanasia_push_continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27344","title":{"rendered":"Father John Flynn&#8211;Pressured to Die: Euthanasia Push Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England is also the scene of a vigorous dispute over euthanasia. In June the BBC broadcast a documentary made by author Terry Pratchett. He suffers from Alzheimer&#8217;s disease and has been campaigning for a change in the law regarding assisted suicide&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The program comes at a time when a privately sponsored commission &#8212; the Commission on Assisted Dying &#8212; is holding an inquiry into assisted suicide.<br \/>\nIt is headed by a former lord chancellor, Lord Falconer. Funding comes from Terry Pratchett and businessman Bernard Lewis, the Guardian newspaper reported last Nov. 30.<br \/>\nCritics have pointed out that it is hardly likely to be impartial, given Pratchett&#8217;s involvement as an active campaigner in favor of assisted suicide&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenit.org\/article-33090?l=english\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England is also the scene of a vigorous dispute over euthanasia. In June the BBC broadcast a documentary made by author Terry Pratchett. He suffers from Alzheimer&#8217;s disease and has been campaigning for a change in the law regarding assisted<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27344\">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":[48,39,50,42,103,438,168,200,104,114,96,154,184,177,108,364,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-aging-the-elderly","category-death-burial-funerals","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27344","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=27344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}