{"id":408,"date":"2005-12-07T12:24:49","date_gmt":"2005-12-07T12:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccgi.geraldyuen.plus.com\/?p=408"},"modified":"2007-02-28T17:51:07","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T17:51:07","slug":"joy-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=408","title":{"rendered":"Joy of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Went to the annual charity dinner for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeuk.org\/\">LIFE<\/a> this evening. As always, it was good to be able to support this charity through attending a very palatable meal. The work carried out by LIFE and other pro-life charities was made even more poignant after reading <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/health\/4500022.stm\">an article on the BBC<\/a> which tells of Gianna Jessen&#8217;s survival of an abortion. Considering what she went through, the only way to describe the event was that she had survived an attempted murder! The pro-choice camp say such a thing cannot happen in this country<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pro-choice groups say that while hers is a distressing story it is unusual and that guidelines are in place in the UK to stop live births after abortions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How is this distressing? This is an amazing story! This girl escaped being murdered! Maybe I&#8217;m cynical, but the pro-choice camp even appear to be saying that babies in this country cannot escape being murdered. Whilst I understand a pregnancy will affect a woman&#8217;s life enormously, I cannot believe that murdering another human being in order to avoid this momentous event, is justified. (Unless the pregnancy is actually likely to kill the mother).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went to the annual charity dinner for LIFE this evening. As always, it was good to be able to support this charity through attending a very palatable meal. The work carried out by LIFE and other pro-life charities was made even more poignant after reading an article on the BBC which tells of Gianna Jessen&#8217;s&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=408\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}