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Bill: Adoption (Applicants) Amendment Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Judicial Union 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: June 2495
Description[?]:
| An act to allow any couple to adopt a child. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning who can proceed with adoption; in case adoption is legal.
Old value:: Only heterosexual couples may adopt children.
Current: Only heterosexual couples may adopt children.
Proposed: Only couples may adopt children.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:03:25, December 01, 2007 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Adoption (Applicants) Amendment Act |
| Message | There is no reason two men or two women could not raise a child as well as a man and a woman. This restriction is unnecessary. |
| Date | 18:44:02, December 01, 2007 CET | From | One Nation Socialist Party | To | Debating the Adoption (Applicants) Amendment Act |
| Message | agreed. |
| Date | 19:33:48, December 02, 2007 CET | From | Flemish Liberation Front | To | Debating the Adoption (Applicants) Amendment Act |
| Message | i bet you've got two daddies too you son of gays... (just to illustrate how children will be bullied/teased because you want to change this law) |
| Date | 08:25:37, December 03, 2007 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Adoption (Applicants) Amendment Act |
| Message | So, we should prevent children from going to an otherwise loving home because they might get teased a bit at school? Kids will be teased regardless of who their parents are. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 66 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 223 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 210 |
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