{"id":9444,"date":"2008-11-06T18:16:10","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T18:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/washington_state_voters_approve_assisted_suicide_initiative\/"},"modified":"2008-11-06T18:16:10","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T18:16:10","slug":"washington_state_voters_approve_assisted_suicide_initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9444","title":{"rendered":"Washington State Voters approve assisted suicide initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voters approved Initiative 1000 on Tuesday, making Washington the second state to give terminally ill people the option of medically assisted suicide.<\/p>\n<p>The ballot measure, patterned after Oregon&#8217;s &#8220;Death with Dignity&#8221; law, allows a terminally ill person to be prescribed lethal medication, which would be self-administered.<\/p>\n<p>With about 43 percent of the expected vote counted Tuesday in unofficial returns, I-1000 was being approved by a margin of about 58 percent to about 42 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters, led publicly by Democratic former Gov. Booth Gardner, said the initiative would provide a compassionate way for terminally ill people to die.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2008352565_apwaassistedsuicide2ndldwritethru.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters approved Initiative 1000 on Tuesday, making Washington the second state to give terminally ill people the option of medically assisted suicide. The ballot measure, patterned after Oregon&#8217;s &#8220;Death with Dignity&#8221; law, allows a terminally ill person to be prescribed<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9444\">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":[48,39,40,438,104,114,96,184,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-death-burial-funerals","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-parish-ministry","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9444","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=9444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}