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Bill: Abortion Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Human Extinction Project
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 2588
Description[?]:
| Given the current state of the planet and the necessity for human extinction, there is no moral case for forcing a woman to go ahead with a pregnancy against her will. Professor Horace Werckle (Director of the Human Extinction Project) |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Policy on the legality of abortions
Old value:: Abortion is allowed during the first trimester.
Current: Abortions are only allowed in medical emergencies.
Proposed: Abortion is allowed during the entire course of the pregnancy.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:18:27, June 07, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Abortion Act |
| Message | In the law, we have a concept called laches. If A has a right that they can enforce against B (which could be anything, such as breach of trust, breach of contract, trespass), and A has not enforced that right for a time such that B's position would be inequitably worsened by A enforcing that right, then A is barred from enforcing that right by laches. Now, the rights of the foetus and rights of the mother have to be balanced. The mother has full rights up to the end of the first trimester, that is, until the non-living embryo becomes a living foetus. After that point, the mother has slept on her rights. She has taken too long in exercising her rights, such that the outcome of any enforcement would make the foetus much worse off than if those rights were exercising earlier on, and by the equitable doctrine of laches, she must be barred from enforcing them against the embryo. To allow a child to be aborted mere minutes before being born is nothing but murder by another name. We have a fully functioning human being which is allowed to be killed merely because it hasn't proceeding from the mother's womb. That is immoral. |
| Date | 10:42:51, June 07, 2008 CET | From | Greenish Liberal Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Abortion Act |
| Message | We're liberal, but this is crazy |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 146 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 354 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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