{"id":45149,"date":"2014-07-17T15:45:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T15:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_care_minister_norman_lamb_backs_assisted_dying_bill\/"},"modified":"2014-07-17T15:45:09","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T15:45:09","slug":"bbc_care_minister_norman_lamb_backs_assisted_dying_bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45149","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Care minister Norman Lamb backs assisted dying bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Care Minister Norman Lamb has said he has &#8220;changed his mind&#8221; and would now support a new law on assisted dying.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberal Democrat told BBC Newsnight an individual should be able to &#8220;make their own decision about their life&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But a cancer specialist told the programme it could create &#8220;death squads&#8221; by putting the decision in the hands of doctors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-28339270\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Care Minister Norman Lamb has said he has &#8220;changed his mind&#8221; and would now support a new law on assisted dying. The Liberal Democrat told BBC Newsnight an individual should be able to &#8220;make their own decision about their life&#8221;.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45149\">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":[48,39,50,103,175,438,199,168,104,114,96,184,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-aging-the-elderly","category-anthropology","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\/45149","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=45149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}