{"id":48200,"date":"2015-02-03T00:21:26","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T00:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cns_california_bill_would_legalize_assisted_suicide_for_terminally_ill\/"},"modified":"2015-02-03T00:21:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T00:21:26","slug":"cns_california_bill_would_legalize_assisted_suicide_for_terminally_ill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48200","title":{"rendered":"(CNS) California bill would legalize assisted suicide for terminally ill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California legislators have introduced assisted suicide legislation modeled on Oregon&#8217;s assisted suicide law, energized by the heartbreaking story of Brittany Maynard, a young woman with brain cancer, who moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to Oregon to end her own life Nov. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Before her suicide, Maynard, 29, created videos asking for assisted suicide legislation that drew tens of millions of views, and her mother and husband are now campaigning for legalization.<\/p>\n<p>California S.B. 128, as it is called, would allow doctors to prescribe a lethal dose of medication to terminally ill patients who want to commit suicide. Written by Democratic Sens. Bill Monning and Lois Wolk, the bill has sparked strong opposition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ncronline.org\/news\/faith-parish\/california-bill-would-legalize-assisted-suicide-terminally-ill\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California legislators have introduced assisted suicide legislation modeled on Oregon&#8217;s assisted suicide law, energized by the heartbreaking story of Brittany Maynard, a young woman with brain cancer, who moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to Oregon to end her<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48200\">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":[48,39,40,103,175,101,438,168,104,114,96,98,184,151,129,108,619,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-aging-the-elderly","category-anthropology","category-children","category-death-burial-funerals","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-marriage-family","category-parish-ministry","category-politics-in-general","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-state-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48200","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=48200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}