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Bill: The Mandatory Vaccination Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: The Green Manalishi 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: May 2603
Description[?]:
| We believe that the best option to protect the health of our citizens in this area is to enforce mandatory vaccinations. Unless another party can produce a strong argument against the proposal then we assume anyone who rejects the chance of vaccination to be putting other citizens at risk and potentially placing a bigger burden on the health service in the long-term. N.B - We, The GMP, refuse to consider the religious stance of refusal in this matter as an insult to the majority of our citizens. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's stance on vaccinations.
Old value:: The government mandates vaccination for all children, but parents may opt out for religious or ideological reasons.
Current: The government encourages vaccinations for children, but does not enforce them.
Proposed: The government mandates vaccination for all children.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:46:45, July 05, 2008 CET | From | Plowshare Collective | To | Debating the The Mandatory Vaccination Act |
| Message | people have a right to control what goes into their bodies, and it is nothing short of tyrannical for the state for force the violation of religious principles, whatever the perceived benefits. |
| Date | 12:35:37, July 05, 2008 CET | From | The Green Manalishi Party | To | Debating the The Mandatory Vaccination Act |
| Message | Though we loosely agree with the first part of your response, refusal to be vaccinated on religious grounds can affects something like the '1 bad apple' syndrome; posing a selfish moral dilemma and potential, actual risk to the vast majority of people that will have no problem in being immunized. |
| Date | 19:28:32, July 05, 2008 CET | From | Republican Patriciate Coalition | To | Debating the The Mandatory Vaccination Act |
| Message | The problem being that by one person refusing to be vaccinised the disease survives, and so can continue despite vaccination. Only when all are vaccinated can a disease be defeated. Support |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 272 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 443 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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