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Bill: Parental Qualifications Act of 2702
Details
Submitted by[?]: Konstitutionelle Monarchie Partei
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: February 2703
Description[?]:
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Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning parental qualifications.
Old value:: The government does not hold qualifications for new parents.
Current: Parental qualifications are left to local governments.
Proposed: The government requires a test for would-be parents, if parents circumvent the test they are allowed to keep the children, but are watched for incompentence.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 07:07:20, January 27, 2009 CET | From |  Liberaldemokratische Allianz | To | Debating the Parental Qualifications Act of 2702 |
| Message | The government has no right to decide who and who not can conceive children. |
| Date | 12:45:35, January 27, 2009 CET | From | Konstitutionelle Monarchie Partei | To | Debating the Parental Qualifications Act of 2702 |
| Message | It says "The government requires a test for would-be parents" not "the government decides who or who not will have kids". |
| Date | 02:11:11, January 28, 2009 CET | From | Wiedervereinigten Nationalisten | To | Debating the Parental Qualifications Act of 2702 |
| Message | So the government is going to implement mandatory pregnancy tests every month for every woman in the country to determine if she will have a child? What about other types of families, such a single-parent homes or same-sex couples? This is ill-thought out. |
| Date | 03:49:36, January 28, 2009 CET | From | Konstitutionelle Monarchie Partei | To | Debating the Parental Qualifications Act of 2702 |
| Message | Mandatory pregnancy tests? Where are you getting this from? You guys are getting confused; the law does is not regulating if someone can have a baby or not nor does it say anything about pregnancy tests. The law proposed is revolved around qualifications for new parents, not pregnacy tests. This proposed policy does not have authority if a woman can or not have a baby for one and two nowhere does it say that the national government can go into the bedroom and stop them from attempting to have a child. It is just a simple test, not the one you're thinking about probably, but a minor set of questions on basic parental skills outlining standard guidelines. If they fail horribly then they will be on notice and they'll be put on watch for a period of time with visits or calls. We're not taking the child away. Male same sex couples can't have children and their only option is adoption which, correct me if I'm wrong, is strictly regulated by the national government. Adopting requires a number of tests to be filled out, versus a single proposed here, and a rigorous program to determine if they are fit for adoption. So having highly restrictive laws for adoption and such a radical law where no sort of standards are held towards new parents there are no provisions? It is just a simple test, not even a test. As for female same sex couples, I'm assuming they will towards artificial insemination, and will be treated like everyone else with a simple parental test. Single parents too, they'll take the same test. It is only one test and it will eventually be up to the hospitals themselves to give out these basic tests anyway. New parents can simply fill the test out in the waiting room. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 248 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 370 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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