{"id":52072,"date":"2015-10-14T02:05:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T02:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/usa_today_kirsten_powers_on_the_new_california_law_suicide_by_any_other_nam\/"},"modified":"2015-10-14T02:05:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T02:05:26","slug":"usa_today_kirsten_powers_on_the_new_california_law_suicide_by_any_other_nam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52072","title":{"rendered":"(USA Today) Kirsten Powers on the new California Law: Suicide by any other name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The grim reaper is feeling bullish.<\/p>\n<p>Following success in California \u201d\u201d the fifth state where doctors are now free to prescribe lethal doses of medication to terminally-ill or dying patients \u201d\u201d so-called \u201cright-to-die\u201d\u009d activists have turned their eyes to Maryland, New York and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that this is a national wave,\u201d\u009d Maryland Del. Shane E. Pendergrass, D-Howard, told The Washington Post. Pendergrass plans to sponsor \u201cright-to-die\u201d\u009d legislation in January.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a wave with the potential to sweep some of society\u2019s most vulnerable \u201d\u201d the elderly, the terminally ill and disabled \u201d\u201d prematurely into the hereafter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2015\/10\/13\/kirsten-powers-assisted-suicide-other-name-right-die-column\/73833192\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The grim reaper is feeling bullish. Following success in California \u201d\u201d the fifth state where doctors are now free to prescribe lethal doses of medication to terminally-ill or dying patients \u201d\u201d so-called \u201cright-to-die\u201d\u009d activists have turned their eyes to Maryland,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52072\">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":[48,39,103,175,101,438,168,104,114,96,98,184,108,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","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-religion-culture","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52072","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=52072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}