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Bill: Choice Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Social Reform 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: January 2169
Description[?]:
| Freedom means choice. The choice to abort a child, if a women sees fit. The choice to ude recreational drugs, if one wishes. We must allow our people to choose, if we're to call ourselves free. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Policy on the legality of abortions
Old value:: Abortions are only allowed in medical emergencies.
Current: All abortions are illegal.
Proposed: Abortion is allowed during the first and second trimesters.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The right to euthanasia.
Old value:: Euthanasia is illegal and considered murder.
Current: Euthanasia is allowed with consent from the patient and the treating doctor.
Proposed: Euthanasia is only allowed with consent from the patient and a court order.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Displays of public affection and obscenity laws.
Old value:: Local governments may regulate laws on public acts of affection and obscenity.
Current: Sexual intercourse is illegal in public.
Proposed: There are no laws regarding obscene public acts.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The recreational drug policy.
Old value:: Recreational drug use is regulated by local governments.
Current: The use of cannabis is legal.
Proposed: There are no laws regulating what citizens can put into their bodies.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Sale of tobacco products.
Old value:: Only adults may purchase tobacco.
Current: Only adults may purchase tobacco.
Proposed: There are certain restrictions on the sale of tobacco products but everyone is allowed to buy them.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:11:47, January 08, 2006 CET | From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Choice Act |
| Message | We wouldn't have objected to certain things in this bill, but are forced to vote against the removal of regional rights. |
| Date | 22:18:29, January 08, 2006 CET | From | Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the Choice Act |
| Message | We will support this. |
| Date | 22:35:47, January 08, 2006 CET | From | Lord-General Drache Party | To | Debating the Choice Act |
| Message | While I am against the last two, I'm willing to give this one my vote. |
| Date | 22:41:50, January 08, 2006 CET | From | Social Reform Party | To | Debating the Choice Act |
| Message | Sadly, the "Freedom" Party would take rights away from the individual in order to give the choice to the local goverments. |
| Date | 22:59:14, January 08, 2006 CET | From |  Aloria Green Socialist Party | To | Debating the Choice Act |
| Message | What about the freedom of the unborn child SRP? |
| Date | 23:16:34, January 08, 2006 CET | From | Independent Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Choice Act |
| Message | For 3, against the rest. |
| Date | 00:23:10, January 09, 2006 CET | From | Social Reform Party | To | Debating the Choice Act |
| Message | If only that unborn child could live on its own, then we might consider it human. Until then, we will support freedom. |
| Date | 09:12:50, January 09, 2006 CET | From | Aloria Green Socialist Party | To | Debating the Choice Act |
| Message | And crushing the weak it seems... |
| Date | 13:29:36, January 09, 2006 CET | From | Memorare Party | To | Debating the Choice Act |
| Message | so, can a mother kill a 6 month year old too? it needs help to live....it isnt independant... |
| Date | 13:31:37, January 09, 2006 CET | From | Memorare Party | To | Debating the Choice Act |
| Message | 6 month/year that was supposed to be. add a / |
| Date | 15:49:26, January 09, 2006 CET | From | Aloria Green Socialist Party | To | Debating the Choice Act |
| Message | And oldies too? SRP has read Logan's Run a few more times than is healthy, I suspect... |
| Date | 19:38:49, January 09, 2006 CET | From | Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the Choice Act |
| Message | A 6 month old baby could be supported by another human. A 1 month old foetus couldn't. |
| Date | 20:05:41, January 09, 2006 CET | From | Aloria Green Socialist Party | To | Debating the Choice Act |
| Message | "If only that unborn child could live on its own, then we might consider it human. Until then, we will support freedom." How does the SRP's view fit into this? |
| Date | 22:11:50, January 09, 2006 CET | From | Independent Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Choice Act |
| Message | SRP, kill anyone up to their junior year in high school. That should be legal. Abort the dependent parisites! If it's the mother's choice, of course. The mother has the liberty. Oh wait, there's such a thing as *too* much liberty - ie. where it affects another's liberty negatively. |
| Date | 01:06:58, January 10, 2006 CET | From | Aloria Green Socialist Party | To | Debating the Choice Act |
| Message | Very well put. |
| Date | 01:42:28, January 10, 2006 CET | From | Social Reform Party | To | Debating the Choice Act |
| Message | Another's liberty? Can that fetus speak? It can't live on its own... it can't speak, it can't think. What is so human about it? It has merely the potential to be a functioning human. Look, we're not advocating abortions, we're advocating a mothers choice to an abortion if they see fit. Do you honestly believe that mothers will be running to abort their unborn fetus's? No! It's not a fun process. |
| Date | 23:13:45, January 11, 2006 CET | From | Independent Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Choice Act |
| Message | How do you know that it cannot think? Have you been able to communicate with a fetus? Do you then want to kill a deaf, dumb, and mentally retarded person because they cannot speak, hear, or think like we can? Nazi! |
| Date | 01:46:17, January 12, 2006 CET | From | Aloria Green Socialist Party | To | Debating the Choice Act |
| Message | I'm going to have to agree with ICP here. Crazy. |
| Date | 01:48:56, January 12, 2006 CET | From | Independent Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Choice Act |
| Message | The ICP is life-life-life. Anti-abortion, death penalty, and euthenasia. |
| Date | 12:48:55, January 12, 2006 CET | From | Aloria Green Socialist Party | To | Debating the Choice Act |
| Message | See! We can agree! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 170 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 430 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: The influence a bill has on elections decreases over time, until it eventually is no longer relevant. This can explain shifts in your party's position to the electorate and your visibility. |
| Random quote: "Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom." - Friedrich Hayek |