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Bill: Abortion Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Telamonese Communist 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: July 2625
Description[?]:
| Telamon's abortion laws are far too liberal, and do not do enough to protect the rights of the unborn child. We would like to go further than what we are proposing here, but this Bill will at least eliminate the horror of really late-term abortions. Albert Brocklehurst (General Secretary of the Telamonese Communist Party) |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Policy on the legality of abortions
Old value:: Abortion is allowed during the entire course of the pregnancy.
Current: Abortion is allowed during the first and second trimesters.
Proposed: Abortion is allowed during the first and second trimesters.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:39:56, August 21, 2008 CET | From | Radical Party | To | Debating the Abortion Act |
| Message | This Act is a disgrace and an insult to a woman's right to self-determination over her own body. Birgit Pfeiffer Shadow Health and Social Services Minister |
| Date | 00:44:56, August 22, 2008 CET | From | Telamonese Communist Party | To | Debating the Abortion Act |
| Message | What about the rights of the unborn child? Albert Brocklehurst (General Secretary of the Telamonese Communist Party) |
| Date | 10:34:17, August 23, 2008 CET | From | Democratic Capitalist Delegation | To | Debating the Abortion Act |
| Message | The unborn child has a right not to be born into a family which is not properly prepared to support it or offer it love, Mr. Brocklehurst. Daunte Woodson Chairman Democratic Capitalist Delegation |
| Date | 13:16:08, August 23, 2008 CET | From | Telamonese Communist Party | To | Debating the Abortion Act |
| Message | If a woman and her family are unwilling to bring up a child, there is a very long queue of other women and families who would be happily prepared to do so in their place. Albert Brocklehurst (General Secretary of the Telamonese Communist Party) |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 267 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 234 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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