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Bill: abortion bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Paraplu 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: October 2492
Description[?]:
| For years has this nation lived under the strange concept that unborn babies are somehow, unhuman; that before they exit the womb, they are little more than an animal that may be killed because it is unwanted, that may be destroyed as if hated. How has this world so devolved that it would attempt justification of the murder of an infant, the practical painting of innocence. Stranger yet that there is bickering about how we should be able to kill the unborn innocent people, and at the same time a bickering of equal strength over how it isn't to kill of murderers, i.e. capital punishment/ the death penalty. Ladies and gentlemen of the legislation of Baltusia, I ask of you, please, that you would recognize humanity in the unborn infants at least in the third trimester. Thank you. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Policy on the legality of abortions
Old value:: Abortion is allowed during the entire course of the pregnancy.
Current: Abortion is allowed during the entire course of the pregnancy.
Proposed: Abortions are only allowed in medical emergencies.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:45:05, November 27, 2007 CET | From | Revolutionary Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the abortion bill |
| Message | The real issue is the right to women to have control over their own bodies. A featus (ignore spelling mistakes please) does have the potential to be life, but it isnt a human yet. It is a small, insignificant bundle of cells. when there is technology available for women to remove this, if they do not have the means to care for a child, a woman has every right to use a medical procedure to terminate the pregnancy. |
| Date | 00:02:02, November 28, 2007 CET | From | Paraplu party | To | Debating the abortion bill |
| Message | That is a ridiculous argument. By the third trimester the baby has formed a body of its own, and he/she is no longer a part of the females body, just because he/she is inside of her. Furthermore, at this point the baby, as seen by recent sonograms, begins to show human personality and behavior. Also, if the woman cannot care for the child, this country has adoption. |
| Date | 10:15:03, November 28, 2007 CET | From | Revolutionary Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the abortion bill |
| Message | human behavior? how can one show human behavior, in an environment that humans have never been in (ie the womb)? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 34 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 231 | ||||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 35 |
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