{"id":28165,"date":"2011-09-10T20:54:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T20:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/lifesite_news_dutch_guidelines_compel_doctors_to_refer_for_euthanasia\/"},"modified":"2011-09-10T20:54:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T20:54:49","slug":"lifesite_news_dutch_guidelines_compel_doctors_to_refer_for_euthanasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28165","title":{"rendered":"(Lifesite News) Dutch Guidelines Compel Doctors to Refer for Euthanasia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guidelines proposed by the pro-euthanasia Dutch Medical Association (KNMG) call on doctors in the Netherlands to refer patients for euthanasia \u201d\u201d even if they have moral or religious objections to the practice of killing patients.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch medical group released the proposal, \u201cThe Role of the Physician in the Voluntary Termination of Life,\u201d\u009d a position paper saying, \u201cPatients, too, often have difficulty telling a physician they have an authentic wish to die. Physicians, for their part, are under an obligation to take such requests seriously. This also means that if a physician cannot or does not wish to honour a patient\u2019s request for euthanasia or assisted suicide he must give the patient a timely and clear explanation of why, and furthermore must then refer or transfer the patient to another physician in good time.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2011\/09\/08\/dutch-guidelines-compel-doctors-to-refer-for-euthanasia\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guidelines proposed by the pro-euthanasia Dutch Medical Association (KNMG) call on doctors in the Netherlands to refer patients for euthanasia \u201d\u201d even if they have moral or religious objections to the practice of killing patients. The Dutch medical group released<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28165\">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":[48,39,50,103,438,200,104,114,96,184,108,455],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-aging-the-elderly","category-death-burial-funerals","category-europe","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-the-netherlands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28165","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=28165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}