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Bill: Abortion Rights Act 2135.
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal-Progressive Union
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: May 2136
Description[?]:
| It is the right of every woman to choose when, and if to have an abortion. Denying a patient an abortion only for the pointless reason that it's been 2 trimesters +3 day's is a restrictive government law. Allow the patient to choose, and without any limits attached to help people sleep at night. Two or Three trimesters is the same procedure and is no more dangerous then any other time during pregnancy. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Policy on the legality of abortions
Old value:: Abortion is allowed during the first and second trimesters.
Current: All abortions are illegal.
Proposed: Abortion is allowed during the entire course of the pregnancy.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:21:54, November 03, 2005 CET | From | National Imperial Hobrazian Front | To | Debating the Abortion Rights Act 2135. |
| Message | We can't support. That's a little too much into the grey area of ethics. We're pro-choice, but this is a bit much. Six months is adequate time for a woman to assess whether or not she wants to bring a child to term. |
| Date | 23:22:44, November 03, 2005 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Abortion Rights Act 2135. |
| Message | No. We reiterate our arguments from the previous attempts to change this bill. Until the second trimester the zygote can be classified as being a non person as it does not register brain activity, however midway through the second trimester (approx 22-3 weeks) the zygote becomes self aware. It feels pain and, given the right circumstances, can actually be birthed and survive. We do not pretend to be pro-life, as is commonly thought of, but this bill takes freedom of choice to far. If the women takes 22 weeks to come to her decision, then she has taken too long. She has had anywhere from 5-6 months to decide, well over half her pregnancy. The creature is no longer a growth, but a living, thinking creature and destroying that life is disgraceful. We call upon all other Parties to vote sensibly in this. There is already a 6 month time to choose, 3 months or less is all it takes to bring a new life and destroying it so close to birth is disgusting. |
| Date | 12:15:50, November 04, 2005 CET | From | United Blobs | To | Debating the Abortion Rights Act 2135. |
| Message | In most cases there should be no reason for such a late aboriton. As the L-PU has failed to restrict the availability to the very few cases where it may be needed we cannot vote for it. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 95 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 232 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 73 |
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