{"id":13218,"date":"2017-03-30T19:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T02:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=13218"},"modified":"2017-03-30T19:00:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T02:00:48","slug":"new-mexico-avoids-legalizing-death-dealing-doctors-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/03\/30\/new-mexico-avoids-legalizing-death-dealing-doctors-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico Avoids Legalizing Death Dealing Doctors\u2026 For Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

     Euthanasia may be on the march across Europe and many American states\u2026 but not in New Mexico<\/a>\u2026 for now:<\/p>\n

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“The [New Mexico] state Senate on Wednesday night defeated a bill that would have legalized assisted suicide for terminally ill patients.<\/p>\n

“In a 22-20 vote, seven Democrats joined 15 Republicans to stop the measure.<\/p>\n

“Sen. Liz Stefanics, D-Cerrillos, sponsored Senate Bill 252 to allow people expected to die within six months to obtain a prescription for drugs meant to end their own lives. In addition, a patient would have to be deemed mentally competent by two doctors.<\/p>\n

“The bill called for a mandatory 48-hour waiting period between the time the prescription was written and filled.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"Death,<\/p>\n

     But death is only an election away…<\/p>\n

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     Euthanasia may be on the march across Europe and many American states\u2026 but not in New Mexico\u2026 for now: “The [New Mexico] state Senate on Wednesday night defeated a bill that would have legalized assisted suicide for terminally ill patients. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[15,33],"class_list":["post-13218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthcare","tag-democrats","tag-gop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13219,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13218\/revisions\/13219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}