{"id":47874,"date":"2015-01-14T16:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/assisted_suicide_law_in_scotland_needs_clarity_msps_told\/"},"modified":"2015-01-14T16:00:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T16:00:39","slug":"assisted_suicide_law_in_scotland_needs_clarity_msps_told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47874","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Assisted suicide law in Scotland &#39;needs clarity&#39;, MSPs told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legal experts and the police said a law allowing assisted suicide in Scotland needed more clarity in order to remove the risk of someone being prosecuted.<\/p>\n<p>There is a &#8220;fine line&#8221; between assisting someone killing themselves and an act of euthanasia which could result in criminal charges, MSPs heard.<\/p>\n<p>The plans, contained in a backbench bill, have widespread public backing, said supporters.<\/p>\n<p>But opponents believed such a move was &#8220;unethical and uncontrollable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-30779817\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legal experts and the police said a law allowing assisted suicide in Scotland needed more clarity in order to remove the risk of someone being prosecuted. There is a &#8220;fine line&#8221; between assisting someone killing themselves and an act of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47874\">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":[48,39,50,103,175,101,438,199,168,104,114,96,98,184,108,326,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47874","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-children","category-death-burial-funerals","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-marriage-family","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-scotland","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47874","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=47874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}