{"id":38221,"date":"2013-05-10T02:00:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T02:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/telegraph_lord_falconer_begins_parliamentary_bid_to_legalise_assisted_dying\/"},"modified":"2013-05-10T02:00:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T02:00:14","slug":"telegraph_lord_falconer_begins_parliamentary_bid_to_legalise_assisted_dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38221","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Lord Falconer begins parliamentary bid to legalise &#39;assisted dying&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The former Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, will present a bill to the House of Lords next week which would introduce a system similar to that in place in the US state of Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>It would allow doctors to provide a fatal dose of drugs to patients judged to have less than six months to live&#8230;.The bill, which will be tabled on May 15, is based on the conclusions of Lord Falconer\u2019s Commission on Assisted Dying, a group of peers and academics which held hearings in the style of a royal commission.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission was dismissed by critics, including the Church of England, as a \u201cself appointed\u201d\u009d group of euthanasia supporters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/politics\/10042219\/Lord-Falconer-begins-parliamentary-bid-to-legalise-assisted-dying.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, will present a bill to the House of Lords next week which would introduce a system similar to that in place in the US state of Oregon. It would allow doctors to provide a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38221\">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":[36,48,39,40,50,103,74,389,438,199,168,104,114,96,184,151,129,108,603,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-aging-the-elderly","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","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-politics-in-general","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-suicide","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38221","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=38221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}