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Bill: Minister of Health and Social Services: Pro-choice legislation
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberale Partij (L)
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: July 2582
Description[?]:
| As a possible incoming government official responsible for Health and Social Services, John Schlesinger, Jr would like to know how far the coalition parties would go in supporting progressive legislation. Would the coalition parties only support restoring legal abortion for the first and second trimesters? Or should a government law go further? |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Policy on the legality of abortions
Old value:: All abortions are illegal.
Current: Abortion is allowed during the first trimester.
Proposed: Abortion is allowed during the first and second trimesters.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 05:58:34, May 25, 2008 CET | From | Hutori Conservative Council | To | Debating the Minister of Health and Social Services: Pro-choice legislation |
| Message | More communist legislation from the Hutori Communist Party. First, the destruction of freedoms in the form of religious beliefs, and now the destruction of innocent life, under the slogan of 'choice'. What's next, will the HLP propose that we engage in population control in the form of the compulsory infantacide of all children born outside a certain quota per family? Should we murder people over the age of 75 because they're too much of a responsibility and a burden, just as this legislation plans to murder children below a certain age for the same reasons? The HLP have shown their true colours as communists, in their 'great leap forwards'. We will vote no on this legislation, 'comrades'. |
| Date | 06:03:10, May 25, 2008 CET | From | Democratic Socialist Union | To | Debating the Minister of Health and Social Services: Pro-choice legislation |
| Message | First and second trimester would seem fair to us. |
| Date | 06:17:29, May 25, 2008 CET | From | Hutori Conservative Council | To | Debating the Minister of Health and Social Services: Pro-choice legislation |
| Message | At 12 weeks, babies in the whomb suck their thumbs. They also stretch and kick. At 15 weeks, they make intricate finger movements. At 18 weeks, they can open their eyes and make crying expressions, a testament to the fact that they already experience feelings and emotions. At 20 weeks, they can yawn. Any party that supports the ending of an innocent human life in the whomb is sponsoring legalized, government-organized mass-murder. Call a foetus whatever you want - a parasite, a co-dependant that cannot truly be classified as a human being, an entity that isn't truly a human being until it is autonomous. Surround the issue with as many convenient definitions of what constitutes a human-being or a life as you want to diminish the responsibility of people who have engaged in sexual activity knowing full well the consequences. Cloud the issue and hide behind any rhetoric you want. But you cannot hide from the facts. The real question is, can you live knowing that you sponsored the murder of a being that can cry and suck its thumb? Can anyone live with that on their conscience? |
| Date | 06:20:10, May 25, 2008 CET | From | Democratic Socialist Union | To | Debating the Minister of Health and Social Services: Pro-choice legislation |
| Message | Yes I can. |
| Date | 06:20:35, May 25, 2008 CET | From | Democratic Socialist Union | To | Debating the Minister of Health and Social Services: Pro-choice legislation |
| Message | Can you live with the idea that you've murdered several million people in a nation-wide nuclear attack? |
| Date | 06:27:42, May 25, 2008 CET | From | Hutori Conservative Council | To | Debating the Minister of Health and Social Services: Pro-choice legislation |
| Message | The difference is innocence. We have never sponsored the termination of a single innocent life, where the communists have continued to do so actively. |
| Date | 06:31:49, May 25, 2008 CET | From | Democratic Socialist Union | To | Debating the Minister of Health and Social Services: Pro-choice legislation |
| Message | The millions of citizens who were killed weren't innocent? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 180 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 121 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: In order for a Cabinet bill to pass, more than half of the legislature must vote for it and all of the parties included in the proposed Cabinet must support it. If your nation has a Head of State who is also the Head of Government, then the party controlling this character must also vote for the bill, since the Head of Government is also a member of the Cabinet. If any of these requirements are not met, the bill will not pass. |
| Random quote: "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." - Karl Marx |