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Bill: Vaccination Freedom Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Rightist 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: August 2507
Description[?]:
| TBD |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's stance on vaccinations.
Old value:: The government mandates vaccination for all children.
Current: The government mandates vaccination for all children, but parents may opt out for religious or ideological reasons.
Proposed: The government mandates vaccination for all children, but parents may opt out for religious or ideological reasons.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 13:17:15, December 23, 2007 CET | From | Greenish Liberal Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Vaccination Freedom Act |
| Message | No. This is crazy. If we're eradicating a disease, everyone must be vaccinated in order to be fully sure it cannot appear again. We cannot allow exceptions for each and everyone. People who're afraid of needles hide would behind ideological reasons, saying "we don't believe in vacinations", but com'on, what's not to believe, medicine is a science, and vacinations have proven to be beneficial. Allowing to refuse vacinations out of religious reasons is just as stupid. This could open doors to refusing medical treatment on these grounds, because their clerical told them human body is a work of god which should not be messed with, and if the patient dies it's God's will, or things like that. Well, to me that's bullocks. |
| Date | 08:54:56, December 24, 2007 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Vaccination Freedom Act |
| Message | A parent should not be given the ability to risk the health of their children in any situation. Unless a parent has as much training as the doctors that suggest the vaccine, it should be mandatory. |
| Date | 14:33:48, December 24, 2007 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Vaccination Freedom Act |
| Message | So much for religious freedom and taking parental rights away. I guess JUP does not care about parental rights at all which is something we have stated in thepast. |
| Date | 18:40:21, December 24, 2007 CET | From | Monacelli Party | To | Debating the Vaccination Freedom Act |
| Message | is there not a general agreement that the rights of the people are greater than the rights of the individual. this is why separation is logically sought, this is why marraige is a civil issue for the most part, this is why health and disease prevention is a scientific responsibility of the governing body for the people. individuals should not be permitted to disrupt things as beneficial as vaccinations. We agree with GLDS and JUP. |
| Date | 06:00:42, December 25, 2007 CET | From | JDW Tukarali Greens Party | To | Debating the Vaccination Freedom Act |
| Message | oppose. parents have the right to send their children to private schools, but they do not have the right to have their children spread infectious diseases. this is not the same as allowing parents the ability whether to chose to give their children medical aid. I do favor that particular libertarian position. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 112 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 387 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: If there are no parties in your nation with seats, feel free to visit the forum and request an early election on the Early Election Requests thread: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=4362 |
| Random quote: "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." - George Bernard Shaw |