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Bill: Moratorium on Eugenics
Details
Status[?]: passed
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: February 2038
Description[?]:
| In order to prevent the genetic exploitation of groups or individuals, and to stave off the ugly spectre of eugenics for political or personal gain, we aim to ban the cloning of humans. This will not apply to the cloning of human tissue, stem cells or DNA for gene-therapy, etc. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards the cloning of human beings.
Old value:: Research in cloning technologies is not regulated.
Current:
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Proposed: The cloning of human beings is illegal.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Moratorium on Eugenics |
| Message | We cannot support this legislation - as the party of science we believe that scientific research should be allowed to evolve to its full potential without intervention by government officials who are not experts in the field. |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Moratorium on Eugenics |
| Message | Scientific research is interfered with by the market in any case. If government doesn't intervene in pharmaceutical research, for instance, then we'll end up with a thousand sorts of Prozac and no tuberculosis vaccines. While scientific progress is a valuable thing in itself, it cannot take precedence over the interests of humanity. |
| Date | not recorded | From |  Communist Party of Endralon | To | Debating the Moratorium on Eugenics |
| Message | We fully support the ASGP on this bill. Shall we take it to voting? |
| Date | not recorded | From | Democratic Socialists of Endralon | To | Debating the Moratorium on Eugenics |
| Message | While we underatand the importance of scientific progress we will support the bill as there is no valid case for human cloning which could also result in terrible moral consequences. |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Moratorium on Eugenics |
| Message | We agree with Parecon. Research in this field has the potential to find cures for many illnesses as this increases the understanding of the workings of the human system. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Democratic Socialists of Endralon | To | Debating the Moratorium on Eugenics |
| Message | Research is important but we believe the bill does not try to ban this and it will only end the actual cloning of people while allowing the "cloning of human tissue, stem cells or DNA for gene-therapy, etc". We believe this will not hold back progress and is necessary to prevent cloning being used for immoral purposes. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 75 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 101 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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