{"id":21533,"date":"2019-06-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/14\/maine-legalizes-assisted-suicide\/"},"modified":"2019-06-17T16:08:37","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T16:08:37","slug":"maine-legalizes-assisted-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/14\/maine-legalizes-assisted-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine Legalizes Assisted Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Doctors can now prescribe lethal dose of a drug to terminally ill and it will not be legally a suicide<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>FRIDAY, June 14, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Maine has become the eighth state to legalize medically assisted suicide.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is my hope that this law, while respecting the right to personal liberty, will be used sparingly,&#8221; Gov. Janet Mills, told the <i>Associated Press<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Under the law, doctors can prescribe a lethal dose of a drug to terminally ill patients, and it will not legally be a suicide. The bill had failed to pass in a state referendum and also a number of times in the State Legislature. It finally passed by one vote in the House and a narrow margin in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>The new law was praised by Staci Fowler, who took on the fight for the law in honor of her friend Rebecca VanWormer, the <i>AP<\/i> reported. VanWormer died of breast cancer in 2017 and had pressed for such a law for years before her death. &#8220;This is what she wanted,&#8221; Fowler told the <i>AP<\/i>. &#8220;And now everybody has the option that she didn&#8217;t have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/7f0fe9d789294a02852c1669c892f382\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>AP News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors can now prescribe lethal dose of a drug to terminally ill and it will not be legally a suicide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-21533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}