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Bill: Responsible Parenting Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Totalitarian 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: August 2132
Description[?]:
| Presently, the government allows any couple to have children. Some people are not fit to raise a child. The Totalitarian Party proposes a test be created for prospective parents. The test will ensure they are able to cope with the rigours of child-raising. Citizens who fall pregnant before taking the test must take the test before the birth. If they fail, the child will be placed for adoption. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's stance on population control.
Old value:: The government does not engage in population control.
Current: The government does not engage in population control.
Proposed: The government actively promotes population growth.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 10:00:35, October 26, 2005 CET | From | National Fascisti | To | Debating the Responsible Parenting Act |
| Message | We agree. |
| Date | 14:57:16, October 26, 2005 CET | From | Anarcho-Capitalist Front | To | Debating the Responsible Parenting Act |
| Message | We disagree. I don't think government knows what it takes to raise children, and I don't think that bad parents would always fail a test. Maybe if offering courses on parenting were an option, but this breaches way too far into the rights and privacy of the individual. |
| Date | 15:50:06, October 26, 2005 CET | From | Totalitarian Party | To | Debating the Responsible Parenting Act |
| Message | Better to stop some of these of people from becoming parents, than to allow them all to raise children. The Totalitarian Party feels citizens do not have the right to raise their children wrong. Therefore, a test to ensure they will make fit parents is not violating any person's rights. However, allowing all people to have children is violating the children's rights. |
| Date | 17:26:44, October 26, 2005 CET | From | Anarcho-Capitalist Front | To | Debating the Responsible Parenting Act |
| Message | Will you force abortion on those who have pregnancies before being approved? |
| Date | 17:31:12, October 26, 2005 CET | From | Totalitarian Party | To | Debating the Responsible Parenting Act |
| Message | I would rather they be forced to place the child for adoption. |
| Date | 09:52:14, October 27, 2005 CET | From | National Fascisti | To | Debating the Responsible Parenting Act |
| Message | Our stance would be forced adoption or abortion within the first trimester, and possibly the second. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 103 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 232 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 84 |
| Random fact: Any RP law granting extraordinary "emergency powers" or dictator-like powers to a government must be passed by at least a 2/3rds majority, but (like all RP laws) may always be overturned by a simple majority vote of the legislature. |
| Random quote: "They should rule who are able to rule best." - Aristotle |