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Bill: Compulsory Vaccination Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: People's Front of Tukarali
Status[?]: passed
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 3566
Description[?]:
| The bill's primary aim shall be to ensure that the importance of vaccination is acknowledged in Tukarali's legislation. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's stance on vaccinations.
Old value:: The government encourages vaccinations for children, but does not enforce them.
Current: The government mandates vaccination for all children, but parents may opt out for religious or ideological reasons.
Proposed: The government mandates vaccination for all children, but parents may opt out for religious or ideological reasons.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:20:51, October 20, 2013 CET | From | Partido de la Libertad | To | Debating the Compulsory Vaccination Act |
| Message | While it is a horrible idea not to give vaccinations, it is the choice of the family, and their choices are their own responsibilities. |
| Date | 17:03:39, October 20, 2013 CET | From | Democratic Workers Party | To | Debating the Compulsory Vaccination Act |
| Message | While the DWP supports the intent of this bill, it would prefer a policy that allows parents opting out for religious reasons. |
| Date | 00:08:57, October 21, 2013 CET | From | People's Front of Tukarali | To | Debating the Compulsory Vaccination Act |
| Message | Adjustments have been made to accommodate the opinions of both the Democratic Workers Party and the Partido de la Libertad Party. |
| Date | 05:45:49, October 21, 2013 CET | From | Democratic Workers Party | To | Debating the Compulsory Vaccination Act |
| Message | The DWP is now strongly in support of the amended proposal. |
| Date | 10:47:47, October 21, 2013 CET | From | União Democrática do Tukarali | To | Debating the Compulsory Vaccination Act |
| Message | "If parents can opt out for religious or ideological reasons, why do we have to change the law at all? At the moment the government strongly encourages vaccinations, but we refrain from using authoritarian methods of enforcement. Those people who these days decide to opt out do that for religious or ideological reasons, so nothing much really going to change with a new law in this form. The only real difference would be that we start threatening people with coercion where so far we've kept ourselves to encouragement and persuasion, and that the government assumes to use the power to decide which reasons for opting out and valid and which are not. All in all, this proposal as it stands now is mostly useless and unnecessary, but also dangerous in certain respects, in that it opens the way for arbitrary and authoritarian measures by the government. The government has to make a decision: either we leave the people the freedom to decide for themselves, or we enforce compulsory vaccination for everyone equally." Guilherme Sandoval, Minister of Health and Social Services |
| Date | 16:38:13, October 21, 2013 CET | From | People's Front of Tukarali | To | Debating the Compulsory Vaccination Act |
| Message | While the Tukarese Democratic Union does have a point, the People's Front of Tukarali feels that they neglect a whole layer of society that opts out of vaccination for lack of information, and not for ideological reasons. While we would feel more reassured if vaccination was completely mandatory, hence keeping religion out of politics, we feel that this bill is a step in the right direction. |
| Date | 22:37:57, October 21, 2013 CET | From | União Democrática do Tukarali | To | Debating the Compulsory Vaccination Act |
| Message | "It should be possible to handle a lack of information by better information and stronger encouragement. If you have compulsion, everyone should be treated equally. After all, how the the opt-out for religious or ideological reasons be handled? Will parents simply declare that they opt out for religious or ideological reasons, and that's it, it will be accepted without question? Then why have compulsory vaccination at all, if anyone can opt out just like that? Or will the government decide which religious or ideological reasons are valid and which aren't, and thereby making a judgement on particular religions and ideologies? It would simply mean an abolishment a religious freedom and and the introduction of aa government-approved ideology through the back door. Far from being 'a step in the right direction', the bill as it stands now is extremely dangerous to the freedoms of the people of Tukarali and their equality under the law." Guilherme Sandoval, Minister of Health and Social Services |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 75 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 50 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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