{"id":16861,"date":"2012-07-11T11:58:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T15:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=16861"},"modified":"2012-07-11T11:58:59","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T15:58:59","slug":"united-church-attendees-are-enthusiastic-supporters-of-euthanasia-and-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/united-church-attendees-are-enthusiastic-supporters-of-euthanasia-and-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"United Church attendees are enthusiastic supporters of euthanasia and abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This isn\u2019t too surprising: on the rare occasion when I have had to sit through a United Church of Canada sermon, by the end of it I was longing for someone to put me out of my misery, too.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/nc\/other\/news-items\/article\/canadian-survey-spotlights-life-and-death-issues-10956.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A majority of <em>The United Church Observer<\/em> magazine readers, most of them church goers, are more liberal in their views than the general Canadian population when it comes to ethical issues such as abortion, euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, a survey has shown.<\/p>\n<p>A significant majority (82%) of readers who participated in the poll said they support euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide when life support is disconnected at the request of a terminally ill patient. Only 48% of the general population gave their approval.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>83% of readers and 69% of non-readers believe the decision to terminate a pregnancy should be left to the woman; 9 % of readers and 19% of non-readers said there should be laws prohibiting\/restricting abortion regardless of a woman\u2019s wishes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn\u2019t too surprising: on the rare occasion when I have had to sit through a United Church of Canada sermon, by the end of it I was longing for someone to put me out of my misery, too. From &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/united-church-attendees-are-enthusiastic-supporters-of-euthanasia-and-abortion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[319],"tags":[2022,2134,1588],"class_list":["post-16861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-united-church","tag-abortion","tag-euthanasia","tag-united-church-of-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}