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Bill: Abortion Law

Details

Submitted by[?]: Liberal Party

Status[?]: passed

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: May 2549

Description[?]:

Abortion should be allowed anytime during the entire course of the pregnancy.

Proposals

Debate

These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:

Date15:05:37, March 20, 2008 CET
FromNew Socialist Alliance
ToDebating the Abortion Law
MessageABOUT BLOODY TIME!!!!!

Date20:49:55, March 20, 2008 CET
FromDemocratic Rationalists (PrCoa)
ToDebating the Abortion Law
MessageThe Democratic Rationalists are stalwartly pro-choice. We believe in the paramount importance of the right of bodily integrity. We believe that the right to terminate a pregnancy is a predicate to equality of the sexes. '

And we must vote no on this bill.

We vote no on this bill because science and common sense tell us it is excessive and it is cruel. The simple fact is, there is no difference between a human infant carried to term the day before it is born, and the day after it is born. It has all the nerve receptors, and all the neural pathways to experience pain on the day before it is born while it is in the womb, just the same as it has them the day after it is born, and lives outside the womb.

We could, in fact, with almost no consequence at all to the infant, induce labor the day before its date of natural birth, or deliver it from the womb surgically. The infant would be indistinguishable if so delivered as it would be the next day.

Why, then, should we permit infanticide just because the infant has not been delivered from the womb? The answer is, we should not.

The Democratic Rationalists take the position that the developing human acquires moral status sufficient to warrant legal protection outweighing the mother's interests in bodily integrity and medical privacy at the same time that the infant develops the capacity to suffer. Given our understanding of medical science, that moment occurs sometime between during the second trimester. It is at that time that the developing human develops the all of the pertinent nervous system predicates required to experience pain. It is at that time that it becomes a moral crime to cause pain to it.

The status quo of the law more than adequately protects women's rights, as it protects developing humans from needless suffering. At any time during the first six months of pregnancy, a woman may terminate it for any reason or none. The state asks only that if she delays her decision for that long, that she respect its interest in protecting what she has to that point permitted to develop in her womb to the point that it now has the capacity to experience the pain of death, for another three months. What the state asks here is not unreasonable or excessive, most especially in light of the rights reserved to the mother.

We urge our fellow parliamentarians to vote against this bill, as its only justification is ideology.

--Tanner Woodman, Democratic Rationalist MP from Tanori, a district in Krentori

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Voting

Vote Seats
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Total Seats: 346

no
   

Total Seats: 259

abstain
  

Total Seats: 145


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