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Bill: Contraceptives Act
Details
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 3033
Description[?]:
Government should give up its policy of trying to insert a free condom in every purse and every wallet, and focus instead on teaching our young people responsible and moral sexual behaviour standards. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on subsidising contraception.
Old value:: The government offers free contraceptives in pharmacies and public toilets.
Current: The government does not supply free or discounted contraceptives.
Proposed: The government does not supply free or discounted contraceptives.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 01:32:25, November 20, 2010 CET | From | Dorvikische Volkspartei | To | Debating the Contraceptives Act |
Message | Mr. Speaker, This proposal is not only outrageously conservative, but would also increase STD infections and possibly even worse. |
Date | 01:37:46, November 20, 2010 CET | From | . | To | Debating the Contraceptives Act |
Message | Mr. Speaker, The distribution of condoms encourages promiscuity and spreads STDs. Condoms are no failsafe means of avoiding STDs. Some highly unpleasant STDs can be transmitted even when using a condom. Also, people frequently find condoms fiddly and difficult to use properly. This is especially so when they are drunk or high on drugs, which is often the condition they are in when they engage in promiscuous sex. What Dorvik needs is a firm, traditional lesson: keep sex within marriage! |
Date | 01:41:47, November 20, 2010 CET | From | Dorvikische Volkspartei | To | Debating the Contraceptives Act |
Message | Mr. Speaker, The point made by the CPU backs up the fact that they're supporting an extremely conservative view. The people of Dorvik do not want to be restricted in so many aspects of their lives. Sexual intercourse is natural and takes place inside and outside of marriage. Our party cannot see, and does not share the CPU's view that scrapping free contraceptives would reduce the number of STDs. May I ask the CPU how they would deal with a population boom as a result? |
Date | 01:50:59, November 20, 2010 CET | From | . | To | Debating the Contraceptives Act |
Message | Mr. Speaker, First of all, this legislation does not ban condoms, nor, for that matter, the contraceptive pill. Those who want to access contraceptives will still be about to access them - just they'll can't expect the tax-payer to pay for them. Secondly, Christians, and especially Catholics, practice Natural Family Planning all around the world, which is an effective method of reducing the size of families. By avoiding sexual intercourse at certain points of the woman's menstrual cycle, the risk of impregnation is dramatically reduced. |
Date | 02:01:27, November 20, 2010 CET | From | Dorvikische Volkspartei | To | Debating the Contraceptives Act |
Message | Mr. Speaker, But not all of the Dorvish people are christian, and even fewer are catholic. Would you really expect the average person, using the example the CPU used, drunk or under the influence of drugs, to go to a store to buy a condom or form of contraceptive when under the current law they could simply go to a public toilet and purchase them there? |
Date | 02:06:37, November 20, 2010 CET | From | . | To | Debating the Contraceptives Act |
Message | Mr. Speaker, Perhaps government and society should be encouraging these people not to engage in promiscuous sex, rather than stepping over backwards all the time to make it easier and more "acceptable" for them to do so? |
Date | 02:12:51, November 20, 2010 CET | From | Dorvikische Volkspartei | To | Debating the Contraceptives Act |
Message | Mr. Speaker, Our party's position regarding what you have suggested is that the state should not interfere in aspects of people's lives such as sexual intercourse to the extent that you have suggestsed. The current law is well balanced in our opinion and we see no reason to change it. |
Date | 02:21:32, November 20, 2010 CET | From | . | To | Debating the Contraceptives Act |
Message | Mr. Speaker, It is the current law which interferes with citizens's lives by taxing them, taking their money and then using it to distribute free contraceptives! The legislation we are proposing is far more choice "neutral", and far less interfering than what the GSP are proposing. Showering Dorvik with free condoms is fuelling STDs, unwanted pregnancies and social disruption; it is doing nothing to stop it. |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | |||
yes |
Total Seats: 165 | |||
no | Total Seats: 335 | |||
abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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