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Bill: The Sanctity of Life Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: People's Party
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[?]:
| To ban the practice of cloning as unethical |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards the cloning of human beings.
Old value:: Research in cloning technologies is not regulated.
Current: Research in cloning technologies is legal, but regulated.
Proposed: The cloning of human beings is illegal.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | not recorded | From | People's Party | To | Debating the The Sanctity of Life Act |
| Message | The practice of cloning is clearly immoral on both secular and religious grounds. No man should be allowed to play with another 's life, nor should men be allowed to assume the powers that have so far been left to the Divine. |
| Date | not recorded | From | National Centrist Party | To | Debating the The Sanctity of Life Act |
| Message | If it is at all possible, I cannot allow this to pass. There is far too much to be gained from this research to restrict it so! |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the The Sanctity of Life Act |
| Message | We are not sure and are considering our position. However we note thay this applies only to the cloning of human beings and not to cloning technology in general. |
| Date | not recorded | From | People's Party | To | Debating the The Sanctity of Life Act |
| Message | Yes this bill is meant to apply only to human life. It's hardly an extreme posittion to take, given that the U.N banned it as well. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/360mveat.asp |
| Date | not recorded | From | People's Party | To | Debating the The Sanctity of Life Act |
| Message | The bill will not restrict cloning research, but only the cloning of human beings. Animal cloning can go on as before. |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the The Sanctity of Life Act |
| Message | Very well on that basis we would support this. |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the The Sanctity of Life Act |
| Message | Cloning 'whole people' should be outlawed. However, would this bill also out law the cloning of a human organ? |
| Date | not recorded | From | People's Party | To | Debating the The Sanctity of Life Act |
| Message | Human organs may one day be grown from stem cells. Therfore cloning of organs is an unecessary practice. While there is a limit to how ethical stem cell research is, it is much preferable to any type of cloning. |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the The Sanctity of Life Act |
| Message | Shall we vote? We seem to be approaching a consensus. |
| Date | not recorded | From | National Centrist Party | To | Debating the The Sanctity of Life Act |
| Message | I hold to my position against it. This could still be used to state that cloning human organs would be illegal. It could also be used to state a lot more, if people wanted to use it like that. Read the description! It says to ban ALL cloning. |
| Date | not recorded | From | People's Party | To | Debating the The Sanctity of Life Act |
| Message | I had to keep it short because the machine would not let me submit it otherwise...Please read it to refer to human cloning ONLY. It does ban cloning of human organs but that can't be expressed in any proposal. So as it stands, it bans all human cloning ONLY. I can't possibly clarify it any further... |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 17 | ||
| no |
Total Seats: 15 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 23 |
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