{"id":49639,"date":"2015-05-02T01:15:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T01:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_south_african_court_backs_assisted_suicide\/"},"modified":"2015-05-02T01:15:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T01:15:34","slug":"bbc_south_african_court_backs_assisted_suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49639","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) South African court backs assisted suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judge Fabricius, quoted in local media, said the ruling applied only to Mr Stransham-Ford and that future cases would be debated on their merits.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is not correct to say from now on it will be a free-for-all,&#8221; he is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The justice and health ministers, as well as the Health Professions Council of South Africa, have opposed the legal case.<\/p>\n<p>Dignity SA said it would welcome an appeal as a chance to test the right to die against the constitution, the Associated Press news agency reports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-32530580\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge Fabricius, quoted in local media, said the ruling applied only to Mr Stransham-Ford and that future cases would be debated on their merits. &#8220;It is not correct to say from now on it will be a free-for-all,&#8221; he is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49639\">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":[48,39,40,103,438,104,114,96,184,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-aging-the-elderly","category-death-burial-funerals","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-parish-ministry","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49639","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=49639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}