{"id":53542,"date":"2016-03-01T15:16:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T15:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/globemail_doctors_urge_ottawa_to_provide_more_clarity_on_assisted_dying_law\/"},"modified":"2016-03-01T15:16:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T15:16:13","slug":"globemail_doctors_urge_ottawa_to_provide_more_clarity_on_assisted_dying_law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53542","title":{"rendered":"(Globe+Mail) Doctors urge Ottawa to provide more clarity on assisted dying law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada\u2019s doctors are pleading with the federal government to put specific guidelines in its medically assisted dying law regarding patients who want to end their lives because of psychological suffering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are still a lot of grey areas, and a lot of unknowns,\u201d\u009d said Jeff Blackmer, vice-president of medical ethics at the Canadian Medical Association.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore we sort of open that Pandora\u2019s box, we need to have a lot more clarity as to what would qualify, and exactly what the process would be.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/doctors-urge-ottawa-to-provide-more-clarity-on-assisted-dying-law\/article28960464\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada\u2019s doctors are pleading with the federal government to put specific guidelines in its medically assisted dying law regarding patients who want to end their lives because of psychological suffering. \u201cThere are still a lot of grey areas, and a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53542\">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":[48,39,103,175,101,438,168,104,114,96,98,184,177,129,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53542","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-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53542","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=53542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}