{"id":2004,"date":"2018-03-07T16:05:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T02:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/?p=2004"},"modified":"2018-03-07T16:05:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T02:05:18","slug":"assisted-suicide-bill-passes-out-of-state-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/?p=2004","title":{"rendered":"Assisted Suicide Bill Passes Out of State House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Hawaii State House of Representatives<\/strong> passed the Physician Assisted Suicide bill (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitol.hawaii.gov\/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=HB&amp;billnumber=2739\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>HB 2703<\/strong><\/a>) on a third reading crossover vote. The vote count was 39 in favor and 12 opposed. Representatives <strong>Aquino, Cachola, Choy, Cullen, Har, Johanson, Kong, McDermott, Quinlan, Tupola, Ward<\/strong>, and <strong>Woodson<\/strong> voted against the bill&#8217;s passage.<\/p>\n<p>The bill now advances to the <strong>Hawaii State Senate<\/strong> where it is expected to pass. <strong>Governor David Ige<\/strong> has indicated he supports killing people though assistance by a doctor.<\/p>\n<p>More from the <em><strong>Honolulu Civil Beat<\/strong><\/em> website:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Emotions run high as legislators debate whether the measure grants a &#8220;civil right&#8221; or sends the wrong message about suicide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.civilbeat.org\/2018\/03\/hawaii-house-passes-medical-aid-in-dying-bill\/\">Hawaii House Passes Medical Aid In Dying Bill &#8211; Honolulu Civil Beat<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hawaii State House of Representatives passed the Physician Assisted Suicide bill (HB 2703) on a third reading crossover vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[451,42,4,445],"tags":[621,13,547,210,251,10,622],"class_list":["post-2004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","category-legislative","category-news","category-re-blog","tag-bad-bill","tag-hawaii","tag-hawaii-state-legislature","tag-honolulu","tag-legislation","tag-news","tag-physician-assisted-suicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2006,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions\/2006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}