{"id":108832,"date":"2016-08-26T17:29:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T17:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/judge-refuses-to-suspend-calif-law-allowing-physician-assisted-suicide\/"},"modified":"2016-08-26T17:29:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T17:29:12","slug":"judge-refuses-to-suspend-calif-law-allowing-physician-assisted-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/judge-refuses-to-suspend-calif-law-allowing-physician-assisted-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge refuses to suspend Calif. law allowing physician-assisted suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\">RIVERSIDE, Calif. (Reuters) &#8211; A California judge on Friday refused to suspend a new state law allowing physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients but allowed a lawsuit challenging the legislation to proceed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\">A group of doctors in Riverside, east of Los Angeles, are seeking to overturn the so-called California End of Life Option, which was passed by the state legislature last year and went into effect in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\">(Reporting by Paula Lehman-Ewing; Writing by Alex Dobuzinskis; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIVERSIDE, Calif. (Reuters) &#8211; A California judge on Friday refused to suspend a new state law allowing physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients but allowed a lawsuit challenging the legislation to proceed. A group of doctors in Riverside, east of Los Angeles, are seeking to overturn the so-called California End of Life Option, which was <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/judge-refuses-to-suspend-calif-law-allowing-physician-assisted-suicide\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}