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Bill: Utilitarian Organ laws
Details
Submitted by[?]: Secular Humanist 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: September 2450
Description[?]:
| Our current laws assume consent for organ donation unless otherwise stated, which is good. But we believe this is insufficient. WE do not think people should be allowed exemption for illogical semantic reasons like "respect for the dead". We believe it is utterly wrongheaded to allow a person to die, because a potential donor was so selfish as to choose to keep oirgans they have no use for once they are dead. THe dead have no use for organs, and to allow the dead to keep them is wasteful and costs the lives of the living. We believe organ donation should be mandatory upon death. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning organ donations.
Old value:: Unless otherwise stated, consent is assumed.
Current: Organ donation is universal and compulsory.
Proposed: Organ donation is universal and compulsory.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 09:15:33, September 02, 2007 CET | From | United Labour Party of Telamon | To | Debating the Utilitarian Organ laws |
| Message | This would violate many peoples' religious and Cultural beliefs. We will oppose this. |
| Date | 21:55:07, September 02, 2007 CET | From | Secular Humanist party | To | Debating the Utilitarian Organ laws |
| Message | People are not allowed to have religious beliefs. Religion is illegal. Therefore, respecting it, is illogical. Respecting practitioners of an illegal act is a logical fallacy. |
| Date | 22:32:57, September 02, 2007 CET | From | Conservative Party | To | Debating the Utilitarian Organ laws |
| Message | Well it is soon allowed, my proposed bill "Freedom of Religion" will pass... Furthermore I dont get why you call yourself Free Humanity, when you dont allow people to have freedom of their own organs. |
| Date | 08:50:04, September 03, 2007 CET | From | Secular Humanist party | To | Debating the Utilitarian Organ laws |
| Message | Freedom is for the living, my friend. The dead cannot enjoy it. And they have no use for their organs. |
| Date | 18:57:33, September 03, 2007 CET | From | Secular Humanist party | To | Debating the Utilitarian Organ laws |
| Message | Gentlemen, we put this to vote, and we ask one question. What is more important.: The lives of the living, or the choices of the dead. |
| Date | 02:11:51, September 04, 2007 CET | From | Telamonese Cultural Alliance | To | Debating the Utilitarian Organ laws |
| Message | The choices of the dead. |
| Date | 16:16:40, September 04, 2007 CET | From | Conservative Party | To | Debating the Utilitarian Organ laws |
| Message | Its not about the dead, its about the family members as well, furthermore I would like to believe my wishes would be respected even in the afterlife. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 127 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 579 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 44 |
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