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Bill: Adoption Amendment
Details
Submitted by[?]: Hutorian Conservative 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: June 2944
Description[?]:
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Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning adoption.
Old value:: Regulation is used to screen out only those with a previous history of child abuse.
Current: Adoption is regulated by the government. Applicants can adopt after a routine check-up.
Proposed: Adoption is strictly regulated by the government. Only by passing several tests and by following an intensive program applicants can adopt children.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning who can proceed with adoption; in case adoption is legal.
Old value:: Everyone may adopt children.
Current: Everyone may adopt children.
Proposed: Only couples may adopt children.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:07:54, May 25, 2010 CET | From | Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM) | To | Debating the Adoption Amendment |
| Message | Mr Speaker, can we ask why a single person should not be able to apply for adoption? We understand why the HNP wish to have such an intensive programme given their ideologies, but cannot fathom why they would wish to stop individuals from adopting. |
| Date | 14:50:20, May 25, 2010 CET | From | Fortunato's Fascist Formation | To | Debating the Adoption Amendment |
| Message | Mr Speaker, we vote yes on the simple matter of a child requiring a stable backround of both a father and a mother, a man and a woman. |
| Date | 15:40:45, May 25, 2010 CET | From | Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM) | To | Debating the Adoption Amendment |
| Message | Mr Speaker, this bill would still allow homosexual couples to adopt children. |
| Date | 16:46:34, May 25, 2010 CET | From | Labour Party | To | Debating the Adoption Amendment |
| Message | Mr Speaker, surely a caring individual is more caring than state facilities. |
| Date | 19:36:46, May 25, 2010 CET | From | Hutorian Conservative Party | To | Debating the Adoption Amendment |
| Message | Mr Speaker, the whole Act sees that the child will go to a home that truly cares and the long adoption procedure. It is better for a child to be raised by a family and not an individual, perhaps Labour can tell us what their comment actually means and why they are opposing this Act. |
| Date | 22:23:41, May 25, 2010 CET | From | Labour Party | To | Debating the Adoption Amendment |
| Message | Mr speaker, we are suggesting that it is better for a child to be brought up by a caring individual who will provide this child with genuine love, than by the state who will not show any love whatsoever to the child, as a faceless organisation naturally will not. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 175 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 216 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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