{"id":703,"date":"2013-05-14T14:13:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T19:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=703"},"modified":"2013-05-14T14:13:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T19:13:46","slug":"way-to-go-vermont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2013\/05\/way-to-go-vermont\/","title":{"rendered":"Way To Go, Vermont"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/media\/ALeqM5h3bx1hXAsxMxKS6v7n04rB8oHW5w?docId=photo_1368506410866-2-0&amp;size=s3\" width=\"200\" height=\"157\" \/>They <a title=\"Vermont legislators approve assisted suicide bill\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5jJDJZfoOQrZ6mHT3TfDruI67AyEQ?docId=CNG.84d22321f3137453dfafc98cdc2ab12e.351\">approved assisted suicide bill<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Liberal-minded Vermont has become the third US state to <strong>allow doctor-assisted suicide<\/strong>, letting terminally ill patients request lethal medication from physicians.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Peter Shumlin, a Democrat, stated he will sign the <strong>End of Life Choice Bill, approved Monday by the House of Representatives<\/strong> in the state capital Montpelier by a 75-65 vote.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oregon and Washington already allow doctor-assisted suicide<\/strong>. But Vermont, a small rural state in New England, is the first to do so by a legislative process rather than through a voter-initiated referendum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is something I have never been able to wrap my head around: if it&#8217;s <em>my<\/em> life, why do I need anyone else&#8217;s permission to put an end to it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They approved assisted suicide bill:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39,50,97],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-euthanasia-assisted-suicide","tag-freedom","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}