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Bill: Euthanasia Bill (2128)
Details
Submitted by[?]: Deltarian Nationalist 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: February 2129
Description[?]:
| A change in the control is needed on the right of euthanasia. A patients wish should be supported by a court order rather than by a doctor as this would prevent any corruption on the part of the doctor. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The right to euthanasia.
Old value:: Euthanasia is allowed with consent from the patient and the treating doctor.
Current: Euthanasia is illegal and considered murder.
Proposed: Euthanasia is only allowed with consent from the patient and a court order.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 13:55:33, October 19, 2005 CET | From |   Liberal-Progressive Union | To | Debating the Euthanasia Bill (2128) |
| Message | Why a court order? Corrupt doctor? A patients wish can be stopped by a court order. Keep the courts judicial and not legilative. A doctor is trained in medicine, a judge cannot determine a coorect ruling as it is beyond his knowledge. |
| Date | 14:14:35, October 19, 2005 CET | From | Deltarian Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Euthanasia Bill (2128) |
| Message | Harold Shipman, though not performing euthanasia (he murdered hundreds of his elderly patients to gain money from their wills) Court order would see if the person was of sound mind to ask for euthanasia and to see if their quality of life would ever improve to a reasonable level. |
| Date | 14:33:28, October 19, 2005 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Euthanasia Bill (2128) |
| Message | We support the L-PU on this for the reasons he outlines above. OOC: Harold Shipman is a very different case. As you say, he murdered patients in order to gain from their wills. A Court order, though would most likely have stopped Mr Shipman, is reliant on the judge acting impartially and only taking the wish of the patient and their quality of life in to consideration rather than their own beliefs. |
| Date | 22:15:53, October 19, 2005 CET | From | National Imperial Hobrazian Front | To | Debating the Euthanasia Bill (2128) |
| Message | Morality should not be legislated, so we cannot condone such a change in policy. |
| Date | 11:22:09, October 20, 2005 CET | From | Deltarian Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Euthanasia Bill (2128) |
| Message | Points taken but still stand by proposal |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 400 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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