{"id":33086,"date":"2012-06-17T01:00:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T01:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/right-to-die_movement_sees_gains_as_world_ages_but_opponents_active\/"},"modified":"2012-06-17T01:00:40","modified_gmt":"2012-06-17T01:00:40","slug":"right-to-die_movement_sees_gains_as_world_ages_but_opponents_active","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33086","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) Right-to-die movement sees gains as world ages, but opponents active"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assisted suicide has been legal in Switzerland since 1942, if performed by a non-physician who has no direct interest in the death. Euthanasia, or &#8220;mercy killing&#8221;, is legal only in the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the U.S. state of Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>[Ted] Goodwin said the election of Socialist Francois Hollande as French president could help the euthanasia cause in Europe. Hollande has said he favors euthanasia under strict conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If France falls into line, I believe Germany will also adopt it. That is a game changer in Europe,&#8221; he said, noting support for reform was also gaining traction in Australia and Massachusetts. &#8220;Things are happening slowly but surely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/2012\/06\/13\/right-to-die-movement-sees-gains-as-world-ages-but-opponents-active\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assisted suicide has been legal in Switzerland since 1942, if performed by a non-physician who has no direct interest in the death. Euthanasia, or &#8220;mercy killing&#8221;, is legal only in the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the U.S. state of Oregon.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33086\">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":[48,39,438,119,104,114,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-death-burial-funerals","category-globalization","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33086","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=33086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}