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Bill: The Outlawing of human cloning.
Details
Submitted by[?]: Economic Liberty Party
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 2439
Description[?]:
| This Bill is being introduced in order to once and for all outlaw human cloning. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards the cloning of human beings.
Old value:: Research in cloning technologies is not regulated.
Current: The cloning of human beings is illegal.
Proposed: The cloning of human beings is illegal.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:50:24, August 01, 2007 CET | From | National Orthodox Front | To | Debating the The Outlawing of human cloning. |
| Message | The NOF believes such a measure accurately reflects the moral opinion of a majority of this nation and we encourage every party to vote with the people. |
| Date | 20:58:35, August 01, 2007 CET | From | Technocratic Party | To | Debating the The Outlawing of human cloning. |
| Message | The TCP does not see anything unmoral about cloning. Experiences make a clone the person rather then the appearance. We will not support this article. |
| Date | 21:02:44, August 01, 2007 CET | From | Economic Liberty Party | To | Debating the The Outlawing of human cloning. |
| Message | We welcome the support of the NOF in this matter and hope it reflects the spirit of our people's, no matter how different our opinions on certain matters can be - we know that we can all rally around over issues of such great moral importance. |
| Date | 21:03:06, August 01, 2007 CET | From | Cyborg Unity Party | To | Debating the The Outlawing of human cloning. |
| Message | The Cyborg Unity believes that such a law is unecessary and harmful to further technological developments in this field. Biological and Medical developments concerning the cloning of humans for research in these areas must be allowed to continue. The Cyborg Unity understand that most have morality issues with such a notion, but advancements in this field must be allowed to continue if only for medicinal purposes. |
| Date | 02:39:19, August 02, 2007 CET | From | Libertophile Party | To | Debating the The Outlawing of human cloning. |
| Message | We do not see anything inherently wrong with human cloning, provided that all clones are treated as equal to other people. |
| Date | 15:14:23, August 02, 2007 CET | From | Liberal Humanist Party | To | Debating the The Outlawing of human cloning. |
| Message | Though we believe that cloning offers great potential for our future health service, we feel the cloning of complete humans to be unjustified. We will not support this bill. |
| Date | 23:25:43, August 03, 2007 CET | From | Economic Liberty Party | To | Debating the The Outlawing of human cloning. |
| Message | The ELP wishes not to stand in the way of technological progress, we only wish this Bill to outlaw cloning techonologies and techniques that are specifically aimed at the cloning of a full human being. |
| Date | 02:41:05, August 05, 2007 CET | From | Monarchism Démocratique et Fédéral | To | Debating the The Outlawing of human cloning. |
| Message | The Free Republic should not seek to inhibit technological progress based on vague notions of genetic superiority. Our morality should be based on a firm logical ground, not conjured up from traditional superstition. |
| Date | 03:12:23, August 05, 2007 CET | From | National Orthodox Front | To | Debating the The Outlawing of human cloning. |
| Message | The Redemption Party should be wary of tossing around 'logic' as if it had a monopoly on its application. When working from inhuman premises, a 'logic of ethics' can lead the arrogant to unimaginable horrors. Do we need to remind the majority voting bloc that recent history's most tragic instances of genocide and tyranny emerged from narrow-minded Enlightenment notions of 'reason'? At what point, in the nihilistic void of a baseless empiricist logic, do the powerful and ruling classes infer basic respect for human life? Indeed, we are basing our morality on firm logical ground. Premise 1: All human life is sacred. From that we infer that it is grotesquely unethical to permit greedy industries to treat human beings as cattle under the guise of 'science'. We support this bill and we will continue to support it in all its future incarnations until this practice is purged from our land. May our children forgive you. |
| Date | 00:36:56, August 06, 2007 CET | From | Monarchism Démocratique et Fédéral | To | Debating the The Outlawing of human cloning. |
| Message | You have given the people of this nation no more reason to believe that cloning will lead to the treatment of human beings as cattle than that natural births will give way to the same treatment. If human life is sacred, why not employ cloning to prolong it with medical research and even create more lives? Just because a human being is a clone does not make him less of a human being; indeed, if we were to outlaw cloning, we might further extend our laws to outlaw adoption or in-vitro fertilization, since both of those practices depart from the traditional notions of conceiving and raising children. No, we must stop injustice at its core, and use cloning technology in a responsible way. Just because a technology could be dangerous in the hands of a madman does not mean that it is unjust for a Free Republic to make use of it. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 144 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 279 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 77 |
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