{"id":734,"date":"2005-08-10T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-10T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/10\/112368647868227632\/"},"modified":"2005-08-10T15:57:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-10T15:57:00","slug":"112368647868227632","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/112368647868227632\/","title":{"rendered":"112368647868227632"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl><a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.co.uk\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&amp;summit=TelecomSummit05&amp;storyid=2005-08-10T095359Z_01_SPI034985_RTRUKOC_0_HEALTH-IRELAND-ABORTION.xml\">This could prove interesting<\/a> &#8211; can it really be a &#8220;Human right&#8221; to terminate the life of another human, albeit one that&#8217;s not yet been born?<\/p>\n<p>Abortion is a tricky issue at the best of times, but when you&#8217;ve got 25 countries involved &#8211; many of which are Catholic &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiousconsultation.org\/News_Tracker\/abortion_foes_get_more_vocal_as_EU_expands.htm\">it gets even more so<\/a>. Which is precisely why there are currently no EU laws on abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Are foetuses covered by the European Convention of Human Rights? If these women lose, it would tend to imply they are &#8211; and so surely abortion should become illegal throughout the EU? If they win, the European Court of Human Rights will essentially be declaring Catholic doctrine to be against human rights &#8211; which would itself surely be a breach of the &#8220;human right&#8221; to freedom of religion?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This could prove interesting &#8211; can it really be a &#8220;Human right&#8221; to terminate the life of another human, albeit one that&#8217;s not yet been born? Abortion is a tricky issue at the best of times, but when you&#8217;ve got &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/112368647868227632\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}