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Bill: Scientific Freedom and Oversight Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Iqembu Sokusebenzisana Yeningi
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: December 2358
Description[?]:
| A bill to increase opportunities for scientific research, under appropriate government oversight. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The use of animals in cosmetics research.
Old value:: Animals may not be used for testing cosmetics products.
Current: Animals may not be used for testing cosmetics products.
Proposed: The use of animals to test cosmetic products is regulated.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 04:07:59, February 09, 2007 CET | From |  Liberal Party of Ikradon | To | Debating the Scientific Freedom and Oversight Act |
| Message | The LPI shall support this reform. Safety testing to ensure humans do not suffer harm is a vital component of product development. |
| Date | 04:09:36, February 09, 2007 CET | From | Iqembu Sokusebenzisana Yeningi | To | Debating the Scientific Freedom and Oversight Act |
| Message | With the appropriate laws to prevent cruelty, cosmetics research on animals should be allowed. An animal is less likely to be seriously harmed by a cosmetic product than a drug, and we allow those with regulation. Likewise, nuclear weapons should be prohibited, but nuclear technology has many peaceful uses and the government should support its research. |
| Date | 13:02:09, February 09, 2007 CET | From | Socialist Workers Union | To | Debating the Scientific Freedom and Oversight Act |
| Message | How many dogs wear lipstick then? This is total lunacy, most cosmetics have been tested already and there is very little nowdays that would need to be tested and could be tested on humans without damage to them. I'm sure a director would put his mouth where his money is so to speak. Anyway neither proposal has any relavence to each other so we reject out of laziness of FIND. |
| Date | 19:43:42, February 09, 2007 CET | From | Iqembu Sokusebenzisana Yeningi | To | Debating the Scientific Freedom and Oversight Act |
| Message | If there are any parties which would support one provision but not the other, we will separate them. Please inform us if that is the case. |
| Date | 22:20:25, February 09, 2007 CET | From | National Conservative Party | To | Debating the Scientific Freedom and Oversight Act |
| Message | The NCP sees no connection between these two proposals and will vote against on principle of them being coupled together. |
| Date | 08:02:36, February 10, 2007 CET | From | Iqembu Sokusebenzisana Yeningi | To | Debating the Scientific Freedom and Oversight Act |
| Message | We are surprised at this response from a party that put a subsidy for contraception in the same bill with the lifting of an abortion ban. Both provisions lift bans on specific kinds of research. In any case, we have removed Article 2. If there is support for the legalization of nuclear research, we will propose a separate bill. |
| Date | 09:12:50, February 11, 2007 CET | From | New Democratic Party | To | Debating the Scientific Freedom and Oversight Act |
| Message | The dubious scientific value of cosmetics testing aside, I doubt animal testing is a necessity. Surely this is not the only way that chemists are going to know if a chemical is corrosive or poisonous? |
| Date | 23:01:38, February 11, 2007 CET | From | Absolutist Party | To | Debating the Scientific Freedom and Oversight Act |
| Message | No, we feel cosmetics should be tested on inmates. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 181 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 418 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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