{"id":55805,"date":"2016-09-27T17:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ct_culture_of_death_sounds_alarm_on_pending_medical_bioethics_legislationot\/"},"modified":"2016-09-27T17:00:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T17:00:11","slug":"ct_culture_of_death_sounds_alarm_on_pending_medical_bioethics_legislationot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55805","title":{"rendered":"(CT) &#39;Culture of Death&#39; sounds alarm on pending medical bioethics legislation+other troubling trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My country\u2019s parliament recently passed the first national assisted-suicide legislation in our history. Prompted by the Supreme Court of Canada\u2019s unanimous decision last year to strike down the previous law as unconstitutionally restricting individual rights to life, liberty, and security, Parliament is now arguing over how widely or narrowly to involve Canadian citizens\u201d\u201dboth patients and health care providers\u201d\u201din assisted suicide.<\/p>\n<p>In Culture of Death, first published in 2000, American lawyer and activist Wesley J. Smith warned that this debate was upon us. A new, updated revision of the book sharpens this warning, drawing on a wide range of cases in Belgium, the Netherlands, Canada, and the bellwether states of Oregon and Washington.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2016\/september-web-only\/precarious-future-of-assisted-suicide.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My country\u2019s parliament recently passed the first national assisted-suicide legislation in our history. Prompted by the Supreme Court of Canada\u2019s unanimous decision last year to strike down the previous law as unconstitutionally restricting individual rights to life, liberty, and security,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55805\">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":[48,39,42,103,175,92,101,438,168,419,104,114,96,98,154,184,177,129,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-aging-the-elderly","category-anthropology","category-books","category-children","category-death-burial-funerals","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-evangelicals","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-marriage-family","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55805","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=55805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}