{"id":51467,"date":"2015-09-06T21:29:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T21:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_observer_article-welby_urges_mps_reject_right-to-die_bill_that_cross_es\/"},"modified":"2015-09-06T21:29:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T21:29:57","slug":"the_observer_article-welby_urges_mps_reject_right-to-die_bill_that_cross_es","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51467","title":{"rendered":"The Observer Article-Welby urges MPs: reject right-to-die bill that \u201d\u02dccrosses the Rubicon\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain will cross a \u201clegal and ethical Rubicon\u201d\u009d if parliament votes to permit terminally ill patients to end their lives, said the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, as leaders of all the UK\u2019s major faith groups call on MPs to reject plans to allow assisted suicide.<\/p>\n<p>In an extraordinary show of unity on Sunday, the heads of Britain\u2019s Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Sikh communities wrote a joint letter to every MP \u201d\u201c published in the Observer \u201d\u201c urging them to throw out the assisted dying bill, which will be debated in the Commons on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2015\/sep\/05\/religious-leaders-urge-mps-throw-out-assisted-dying-bill\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain will cross a \u201clegal and ethical Rubicon\u201d\u009d if parliament votes to permit terminally ill patients to end their lives, said the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, as leaders of all the UK\u2019s major faith groups call on MPs to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51467\">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":[36,48,39,40,50,382,103,67,438,199,104,114,96,184,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-justin-welby","category-aging-the-elderly","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-death-burial-funerals","category-england-uk","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-parish-ministry","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51467","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=51467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}