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Bill: Contraception Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberty 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: October 2606
Description[?]:
| This act will offer considerable discounts on Contraception. It is not our job to supply free condoms. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on subsidising contraception.
Old value:: The government offers free contraceptives in pharmacies and public toilets.
Current: The government offers free contraceptives in pharmacies and public toilets.
Proposed: The government subsidises a considerable discount for contraceptives.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:26:57, July 12, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Contraception Reform Act |
| Message | It is in society's best interests that contraceptives are available to all people who want them. If they are freely available, less women will have to resort to abortion, which is nothing but a good thing. |
| Date | 03:11:37, July 12, 2008 CET | From | Liberty Party | To | Debating the Contraception Reform Act |
| Message | It is not our job to supply contraceptives. Though we would love for it to be totally out of our hands and back in the private sector where it belongs, this is the next best step. |
| Date | 03:20:17, July 12, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Contraception Reform Act |
| Message | If contraceptives aren't freely available, the poor of our nation will not have them. They're hardly going to stop having sex, so there will be increase numbers of STDs and unwanted pregnancies. The former will cost us in terms of medical expenses, the latter will cause numerous social problems. Pragmatically, we must provide them free. |
| Date | 03:27:40, July 12, 2008 CET | From | Liberty Party | To | Debating the Contraception Reform Act |
| Message | You forget that we are already handing out millions of tukars to supply these "free condoms". There's no such thing as a free lunch or a free condom. |
| Date | 03:37:00, July 12, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Contraception Reform Act |
| Message | The costs are significantly less than the alternative. |
| Date | 04:07:13, July 12, 2008 CET | From | Liberty Party | To | Debating the Contraception Reform Act |
| Message | The costs are roughly the same once you break down the overall numbers. |
| Date | 04:12:07, July 12, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Contraception Reform Act |
| Message | Condoms and other contraceptives are cheap. The social cost of unwanted children, leading to disproportionately increased expenditure in education and health, and increases in crime, is much more expensive. |
| Date | 15:55:17, July 12, 2008 CET | From | Liberty Party | To | Debating the Contraception Reform Act |
| Message | Actually...condoms are not as cheap to make as you think. |
| Date | 16:41:03, July 13, 2008 CET | From | Greenish Liberal Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Contraception Reform Act |
| Message | OK |
| Date | 21:47:27, July 14, 2008 CET | From | Party of the Way | To | Debating the Contraception Reform Act |
| Message | I'll support this. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 196 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 304 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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