{"id":7843,"date":"2012-09-29T05:03:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T05:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=7843"},"modified":"2012-09-29T05:03:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T05:03:38","slug":"for-misery-in-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/for-misery-in-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"For Misery in Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/OMalley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/OMalley.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"O&#039;Malley\" width=\"263\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7844\" \/><\/a>Cardinal O\u2019Malley (<em>The National Catholic Register <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/daily-news\/cardinal-omalley-we-can-win-the-fight-against-euthanasia\/#ixzz27pVqX29v\">reports<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cardinal Sean O\u2019Malley of Boston is leading a statewide fight to defeat the Death With Dignity Act, a November 2012 ballot measure that would legalize assisted suicide in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>He has outlined the Church\u2019s underlying moral concerns regarding the threat to human dignity and patients&#8217; rights posed by assisted suicide in a video homily broadcast at Boston-area Catholic churches. He&#8217;s also writing a series of columns critiquing the measure, and he has worked with the Massachusetts Catholic Conference to form the Committee Against Physician-Assisted Suicide, a coalition that includes religious, medical and disability groups across the state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A Kennedy (Joseph Kennedy III) and The Republican (Sien Bielat) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/politics\/2012\/09\/28\/bielat-kennedy-iii-tussle-policy-qualifications-for-office\/as7qVbLJHLGka6x8KFVRYO\/story.html\">contesting<\/a> Massachusetts\u2019s Fourth Congressional District: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They found common ground on a couple of issues.<\/p>\n<p>Both opposed the so-called \u201cright to die\u201d ballot question that would allow doctors to prescribe lethal drugs to terminally ill patients\u2026\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardinal O\u2019Malley (The National Catholic Register reports): Cardinal Sean O\u2019Malley of Boston is leading a statewide fight to defeat the Death With Dignity Act, a November 2012 ballot measure that would legalize assisted suicide in Massachusetts. He has outlined the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/for-misery-in-massachusetts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[6,26,15,711],"tags":[325,970,971],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7845,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7843\/revisions\/7845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}