{"id":71664,"date":"2018-05-29T12:14:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T16:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71664"},"modified":"2018-05-29T16:46:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T20:46:38","slug":"ap-portugal-considers-allowing-euthanasia-assisted-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71664","title":{"rendered":"(AP) Portugal considers allowing euthanasia, assisted suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After legalizing abortion and same-sex marriage in recent times, Portuguese lawmakers will decide Tuesday on another issue that has brought a confrontation between faith and politics in this predominantly Catholic country: whether to allow euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide.<\/p>\n<p>The outcome of the vote is uncertain and is likely to be close, but Portugal could become one of just a handful of countries in the world to permit euthanasia under certain circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Euthanasia \u2014 when a doctor kills patients at their request \u2014 is legal in Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. In Switzerland, and some U.S. states, assisted suicide \u2014 where patients administer the lethal drug themselves, under medical supervision \u2014 is permitted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/fdcf22ae6d2741aabc9be4829bacf44f\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After legalizing abortion and same-sex marriage in recent times, Portuguese lawmakers will decide Tuesday on another issue that has brought a confrontation between faith and politics in this predominantly Catholic country: whether to allow euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide. The outcome<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71664\">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":[103,101,438,168,104,114,96,458,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging-the-elderly","category-children","category-death-burial-funerals","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-portugal","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71664","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=71664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71666,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71664\/revisions\/71666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}