{"id":9028,"date":"2019-03-01T10:18:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T18:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9028"},"modified":"2019-04-13T10:27:42","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T17:27:42","slug":"colombia-takes-medically-assisted-death-into-the-morally-murky-world-of-terminally-ill-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9028","title":{"rendered":"Colombia takes medically assisted death into the morally murky world of terminally ill children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>The Globe and Mail<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"author\">Stephanie Nolan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>  Colombia decriminalized medically assisted death  in 2015, the first country in Latin America to take the step, but it  went much further last May with a regulation that made the procedure  available to children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a particularly striking decision in a  socially conservative country where almost 80 per cent of people  identify as religious Roman Catholics and where the population of  evangelical Christians is growing rapidly; the churches, which vocally  oppose euthanasia, are a powerful political force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Providing assisted death to children is a controversial subject even in the field of palliative care. . . [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/world\/article-colombia-takes-medically-assisted-death-into-the-morally-murky-world\/\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Globe and Mail Stephanie Nolan Colombia decriminalized medically assisted death in 2015, the first country in Latin America to take the step, but it went much further last May with a regulation that made the procedure available to children. It was a particularly striking decision in a socially conservative country where almost 80 per &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9028\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Colombia takes medically assisted death into the morally murky world of terminally ill children&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,162,9],"tags":[3639,3640,3638],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-9028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colombia","category-euthanasia","category-news","tag-carmenza-ochoa","tag-gustavo-quintana","tag-ricardo-luque-nunez"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Colombia takes medically assisted death into the morally murky world of terminally ill children - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9028\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Colombia takes medically assisted death into the morally murky world of terminally ill children - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Globe and Mail Stephanie Nolan Colombia decriminalized medically assisted death in 2015, the first country in Latin America to take the step, but it went much further last May with a regulation that made the procedure available to children. 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