{"id":7212,"date":"2004-03-21T10:20:55","date_gmt":"2004-03-21T15:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/03\/21\/euthanasia-by-omission\/"},"modified":"2004-03-21T10:20:55","modified_gmt":"2004-03-21T15:20:55","slug":"euthanasia-by-omission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/03\/euthanasia-by-omission\/","title":{"rendered":"Euthanasia by omission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">Vatican City &#8212; The Pope said Saturday the removal of feeding tubes from people in vegetative states was immoral, and that no judgment on their quality of life could justify such &#8220;euthanasia by omission.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">John Paul II made the comments to participants of a Vatican conference on the ethical dilemmas of dealing with incapacitated patients, entering into a debate that has sparked court battles in several countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The Pope said even the medical terminology used to describe people in so-called &#8220;persistent vegetative states&#8221; was degrading to them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">No matter how sick a person was, &#8220;he is and will always be a man, never becoming a vegetable or animal,&#8221; he said.<br \/>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.globeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20040320.wpope0320\/BNStory\/Front\/\" target=\"_blank\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vatican City &#8212; The Pope said Saturday the removal of feeding tubes from people in vegetative states was immoral, and that no judgment on their quality of life could justify&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}