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Bill: Freedom of Choice Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Unified Communist Labor 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: October 2044
Description[?]:
| To give women true freedom to control their own bodies, free from the interference of government bureaucrats who have no medical training. The decision to terminate a pregnancy should be between a woman, her doctor, and her God. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Policy on the legality of abortions
Old value:: Abortion is allowed during the first and second trimesters.
Current: Abortion is allowed during the entire course of the pregnancy.
Proposed: Abortion is allowed during the entire course of the pregnancy.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:44:35, April 29, 2005 CET | From |  Communist Party of Endralon | To | Debating the Freedom of Choice Act |
| Message | It doesn't take any medical training to realize that "aborting" a fetus who can survive outside the womb poses serious ethical problems. And I was under the impression that there are, in fact, many doctors among those "government bureaucrats". |
| Date | 03:20:44, April 30, 2005 CET | From | Unified Communist Labor Party | To | Debating the Freedom of Choice Act |
| Message | Yeah, like Dr. Bill Frist? Dr. Tom Coburn? They're real stars. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 207 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 68 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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