{"id":40582,"date":"2013-10-17T02:18:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T02:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_anglican_bishops_in_quebec_urge_the_province_to_drop_the_end-of-life_ca\/"},"modified":"2013-10-17T02:18:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T02:18:45","slug":"the_anglican_bishops_in_quebec_urge_the_province_to_drop_the_end-of-life_ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40582","title":{"rendered":"The Anglican bishops in Quebec urge the province to drop the &#39;end-of-life care&#39; bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican bishops in Quebec have urged the provincial government to withdraw its controversial \u201cmedical aid in dying\u201d\u009d bill saying it could present risks for the vulnerable, including the elderly, people suffering from clinical depression and those with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Bishops Dennis Drainville (Diocese of Quebec) and Barry Clarke (Diocese of Montreal) acknowledged, \u201cthe emotional and challenging circumstances that have led the government to consider the legalization of physician-assisted suicide.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>However, they said, \u201cwe share, with other members of society, concern for the protection of human persons from chronic pain and respect for human dignity.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/articles\/bishops-urge-quebec-to-drop-end-of-life-care-bill\">Read it all<\/a> and follow the link to the Bishop&#8217;s full open letter.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican bishops in Quebec have urged the provincial government to withdraw its controversial \u201cmedical aid in dying\u201d\u009d bill saying it could present risks for the vulnerable, including the elderly, people suffering from clinical depression and those with disabilities. Bishops<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40582\">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":[36,39,50,388,74,175,207,168,104,114,96,108,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-canada","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-religion-culture","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40582","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=40582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}