{"id":42578,"date":"2014-02-13T22:32:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T22:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/belgian_lawmakers_vote_86-44_to_extend_euthanasia_law_to_terminally_ill_chi\/"},"modified":"2014-02-13T22:32:18","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T22:32:18","slug":"belgian_lawmakers_vote_86-44_to_extend_euthanasia_law_to_terminally_ill_chi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42578","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Belgian lawmakers vote 86-44 to extend euthanasia law to terminally ill children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-26181615\">Read it all<\/a>.  Also <a href=\"http:\/\/m.apnews.com\/ap\/db_268743\/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=D0rMgi49\">an AP story is now there<\/a> it begins this way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Belgian lawmakers have voted overwhelmingly to extend the country&#8217;s euthanasia law to children under 18.<\/p>\n<p>The 86-44 vote Thursday in the House of Representatives, with 12 abstentions, followed approval by the Senate last December.<\/p>\n<p>The law empowers children with terminal ailments who are in great pain to request to be put to death if their parents agree and a psychiatrist or psychologist find they are conscious of what their choice signifies. The law was opposed by some Belgian pediatricians and the country&#8217;s leading Roman Catholic cleric.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it all. Also an AP story is now there it begins this way: Belgian lawmakers have voted overwhelmingly to extend the country&#8217;s euthanasia law to children under 18. The 86-44 vote Thursday in the House of Representatives, with 12<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42578\">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":[39,50,175,463,101,168,200,104,114,96,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-belgium","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42578","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=42578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}