{"id":15953,"date":"2015-10-06T18:05:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T22:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/?p=15953"},"modified":"2015-10-06T18:05:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T22:05:54","slug":"statement-by-lila-rose-on-assisted-suicide-legalized-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/statement-by-lila-rose-on-assisted-suicide-legalized-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by Lila Rose on assisted suicide legalized in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong><em>October 6, 2015:<\/em><\/strong> \u201cIt breaks my heart that my home state of California is legalizing assisted suicide. Instead of focusing on end-of-life care and pain management, this law effectively tells sufferers and their families that it&#8217;s better off if they are dead. Besides their physical suffering, those with potentially terminal illnesses struggle emotionally and mentally, and many feel like burdens to family and friends. When we tell them that physician-assisted suicide is even an option, it becomes a subtle form of pressure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdditionally, terminal diagnoses are often wrong. Many of us have heard of someone who was diagnosed with sixth months to live who recovered and was living a full life five years later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we as a society think that suicide is never the answer, how does allowing a physician to commit it make it any less wrong? Helping someone to commit suicide is neither loving nor merciful. The healthy should fight for the sick, not tell them that they will help kill them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 6, 2015: \u201cIt breaks my heart that my home state of California is legalizing assisted suicide. Instead of focusing on end-of-life care and pain management, this law effectively tells sufferers and their families that it&#8217;s better off if they are dead. Besides their physical suffering, those with potentially terminal illnesses struggle emotionally and mentally, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[9553],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Statement by Lila Rose on assisted suicide legalized in California - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/statement-by-lila-rose-on-assisted-suicide-legalized-in-california\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Statement by Lila Rose on assisted suicide legalized in California - Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"October 6, 2015: \u201cIt breaks my heart that my home state of California is legalizing assisted suicide. 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