{"id":23807,"date":"2020-10-15T04:00:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T19:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/15\/new-zealand-euthanasia-vote-polls-point-to-yes-amid-campaign-of-fear-and-doubt"},"modified":"2020-10-15T04:00:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T19:00:03","slug":"new-zealand-euthanasia-vote-polls-point-to-yes-amid-campaign-of-fear-and-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23807","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand euthanasia vote: polls point to &#8216;yes&#8217; amid campaign of fear and doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018yes\u2019 campaign has Jacinda Ardern\u2019s support but opponents say they believe New Zealand\u2019s most vulnerable will be at risk<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, New Zealanders will be asked to vote yes or no on whether Kiwis enduring \u201cunbearable suffering that cannot be eased\u201d have a legal right to end their life.<\/p>\n<p>For Matt Vickers, the former husband of lawyer and euthanasia campaigner Lecretia Seales, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2019\/nov\/14\/years-after-her-death-my-wife-may-yet-change-new-zealands-law-on-euthanasia\">the vote can\u2019t come soon enough.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/15\/new-zealand-euthanasia-vote-polls-point-to-yes-amid-campaign-of-fear-and-doubt\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018yes\u2019 campaign has Jacinda Ardern\u2019s support but opponents say they believe New Zealand\u2019s most vulnerable will be at riskOn Saturday, New Zealanders will be asked to vote yes or no on whether Kiwis enduring \u201cunbearable suffering that cannot be eased&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1002,268,56,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-assisted-dying","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23808,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23807\/revisions\/23808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}