{"id":35315,"date":"2012-10-26T15:15:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T15:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_clash_of_compassions_in_assisted-dying_debate\/"},"modified":"2012-10-26T15:15:43","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T15:15:43","slug":"church_times_clash_of_compassions_in_assisted-dying_debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35315","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Clash of compassions in assisted-dying debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The law on assisted dying is out of step with society&#8217;s standards of compassion, a public debate on the issue heard.<\/p>\n<p>The debate, organised by the Christian Evidence Society, heard from Lord Falconer, who chaired the Commission on Assisted Dying, which reported earlier this year, and the Revd Professor Nigel Biggar, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology in the University of Oxford.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2012\/26-october\/news\/uk\/clash-of-compassions-in-assisted-dying-debate\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The law on assisted dying is out of step with society&#8217;s standards of compassion, a public debate on the issue heard. The debate, organised by the Christian Evidence Society, heard from Lord Falconer, who chaired the Commission on Assisted Dying,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35315\">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":[48,39,50,438,199,168,104,114,96,184,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-death-burial-funerals","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35315","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=35315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}