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Bill: Contraception Availability Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Fenner Brockway Socialist 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: December 2122
Description[?]:
| A bill to reform the laws governing the government subsidy to contraceptives. |
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 | 22:37:02, October 05, 2005 CET | From | Fenner Brockway Socialist Party | To | Debating the Contraception Availability Act |
| Message | A difficult one, but: (a) the notion of free contraceptives in public toilets seems to us extreme. (b) we currently means-test other pharmaceutical products (i.e. we provide medicines free to the poor, but make others pay) - and FBSP thinks medicines should be free to all, but only on prescription, not in public places! - so it's illogical not to apply the means-test to contraceptives. (c) we believe a considerable subsidy is adequate - we don't think that completely free contraceptives are generally necessary to address the public health problem. We do believe that pharmacies should be able to, at their discretion, offer free contraceptives. But the current law seems to go too far. |
| Date | 20:23:22, October 06, 2005 CET | From | Novy Smer Party | To | Debating the Contraception Availability Act |
| Message | We believe that contraceptives should remain free. Contraceptives may or may not be pharmaceuticals and may are certainly helping to reduce the incidence of sexually transmitted infections as well as pregnancies. The provision of free contraceptives will also allow the state to reduce the umber of unwanted pregnancies and thus the human and social cost associated with this. |
| Date | 04:46:22, October 07, 2005 CET | From | Progressive Liberal Party | To | Debating the Contraception Availability Act |
| Message | We concur with Novy Smer. |
| Date | 21:04:14, October 07, 2005 CET | From | Fenner Brockway Socialist Party | To | Debating the Contraception Availability Act |
| Message | To the PLP - why do you support free contraceptives and yet you oppose free medicines? For us, the opposite is more logical. We would prefer contraceptives to remain free under certain circumstances, but we don't see why they should be given out for free in toilets. We support free pharmaceuticals but only on prescription. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 208 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 63 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 50 |
| Random fact: Large scale RP planning (such as wars, regional/continental conflicts, economic collapse, etc.) should be planned (as best as it can be) and should have consent of a majority of players involved. |
| Random quote: "Racism isn't born, folks; it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list." - Dennis Leary |