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Bill: New Peace, Prosperity and Freedom Personal Medical Liberty Act of 2458
Details
Submitted by[?]: Moderate Libertarian Party (NoCoalition)
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: November 2457
Description[?]:
| New Peace, Prosperity and Freedom Act of 2458 (Part II) |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Policy on the legality of abortions
Old value:: Abortion is allowed during the first and second trimesters.
Current: All abortions are illegal.
Proposed: Abortion is allowed during the entire course of the pregnancy.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:35:00, September 18, 2007 CET | From | Industrialist Party of Aloria | To | Debating the New Peace, Prosperity and Freedom Personal Medical Liberty Act of 2458 |
| Message | Partial birth abortions are barbaric. Imagine, a child half-way out of the womb is murdered! |
| Date | 15:46:28, September 18, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Rationalists (PrCoa) | To | Debating the New Peace, Prosperity and Freedom Personal Medical Liberty Act of 2458 |
| Message | Maybe ironically to some, banning late term abortions was DRs first legislative accomplishment. We oppose now as we supported the law banning late term abortions before. As the fetus develops greater capacity for suffering, so does its moral status relative to a mother's interests in medical privacy. By the third trimester (really earlier), scientific evidence shows that fetuses have sufficient nerve endings and neural capacity to experience pain nearly as fully as an adult human. Moreover, except in cases of medical emergency in which the life or physical health of the mother are seriously threatened by carrying a pregnancy to term, we'd likewise argue that although the mother's interest in medical privacy has not diminished by the third trimester, her claim that she has not had the opportunity to exercise private medical decision making has. Therefore, the balance of the values of preventing needless fetal suffering versus protecting womens' medical privacy weighs in favor the fetus by the third trimester. [OOC: We'd support an exception to the late term abortion ban for abortions done to preserve the life or physical health of the mother. But the game doesn't give that option that I know of. /OOC] |
| Date | 23:05:46, September 18, 2007 CET | From |  Moderate Libertarian Party (NoCoalition) | To | Debating the New Peace, Prosperity and Freedom Personal Medical Liberty Act of 2458 |
| Message | What about 3rd trimester for health and life of mother concerns? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 249 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 400 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 51 |
| Random fact: Information about the population of each country can be found on the Population Information thread: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8663 |
| Random quote: "A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example." - Niccolo Machiavelli |