{"id":7091,"date":"2011-02-21T10:10:06","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T23:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=7091"},"modified":"2011-02-21T10:10:06","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T23:10:06","slug":"cmdfa-response-to-euthanasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/02\/21\/cmdfa-response-to-euthanasia\/","title":{"rendered":"CMDFA Response to Euthanasia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The <strong>C<\/strong>hristian <strong>M<\/strong>edical and <strong>D<\/strong>ental <strong>F<\/strong>ellowship of <strong>A<\/strong>ustralia has significantly contributed to the area of medical ethics. This article is written by men and women who are Christians working in the medical field with expert knowledge, experience and a Christian mindset that can properly inform\u00a0the public and leaders of the church on the issues surrounding medical ethics.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;Moral  opposition to both euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide has  been a  feature of\u00a0 both the Hippocratic and the Judeo-Christian  tradition from  earliest times. This is particularly striking in view of  the commitment  of both traditions to the relief of suffering and care  of the dying. We  acknowledge the power of the arguments for both  practices based on  compassion, but believe that even more powerful  counter-arguments lead  us as Christians and doctors to continue to  oppose their legalization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I strongly encourage you to read the rest of the article here, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmdfa.org.au\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=136:cmdfa-response-to-euthanasia&amp;catid=15:working-papers&amp;Itemid=16\">CMDFA Response to Euthanasia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also view this related blog post <a href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/12\/06\/christian-doctors-oppose-euthanasia\/\">Australian Christian doctors oppose euthanasia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Christian Medical and Dental Fellowship of Australia has significantly contributed to the area of medical ethics. This article is written by men and women who are Christians working in the medical field with expert knowledge, experience and a Christian &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/02\/21\/cmdfa-response-to-euthanasia\/\">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\/7091"}],"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=7091"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7105,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7091\/revisions\/7105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}