{"id":5305,"date":"2010-09-13T23:55:41","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T12:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=5305"},"modified":"2010-09-14T00:51:35","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T13:51:35","slug":"pro-euthanasia-tv-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/09\/13\/pro-euthanasia-tv-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-euthanasia TV ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Parading raw emotion is not the way to discuss end of life issues.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, pro-euthanasia advocates plan to do us such a dis-service.<\/p>\n<p>See news reports\u00a0from 7 September,<a href=\"http:\/\/news.smh.com.au\/breaking-news-national\/proeuthanasia-ads-to-hit-tv-screens-20100907-14z4z.html\"> here<\/a>\u00a0 and \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/breaking-news\/pro-euthanasia-ads-to-hit-tv-screens\/story-e6frfku0-1225915403208\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Yesterday the pro-euthanasia\u00a0ads were banned because they promote suicide.<\/p>\n<p>But then, euthanasia is a euthemism for assisted suicide \/ medical killing. The intent is to kill.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Free TV Australia, which regulates the industry, withdrew its permission for the $30,000 ad to be screened on the grounds that it promotes suicide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/entertainment\/tv-and-radio\/euthanasia-ad-banned-20100912-156nq.html?from=smh_ft\">Euthanasia ad banned<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Parading raw emotion is not the way to discuss end of life issues. Sadly, pro-euthanasia advocates plan to do us such a dis-service. See news reports\u00a0from 7 September, here\u00a0 and \u00a0here. \u00a0Yesterday the pro-euthanasia\u00a0ads were banned because they promote suicide. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/09\/13\/pro-euthanasia-tv-ads\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5305"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5305"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5355,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5305\/revisions\/5355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}