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Bill: Organ Donations
Details
Submitted by[?]: Telamon Social Democratic 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: November 2189
Description[?]:
| We do not wish to force anyone to donate organs, but we feel that the default option should be one with greater benefits for society as a whole. Naturally opting out of donating organs should be very easy and simple for any religious or other reasons. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning organ donations.
Old value:: Organ donations are legal with personal consent.
Current: Organ donation is universal and compulsory.
Proposed: Unless otherwise stated, consent is assumed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 11:16:47, February 18, 2006 CET | From | United Liberal Alliance | To | Debating the Organ Donations |
| Message | It still requires someone to opt out though, which they may forget to do etc. The state doesn't have the right to simply assume things like this about its citizens, it should be the incumbent upont the citizen to consent rather than the state simply assuming consent unless told otherwise (and I can think of a really terrible analogy but i don't think i'll share that!!) |
| Date | 19:05:22, February 18, 2006 CET | From | Telamon Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Organ Donations |
| Message | State is forced to assume things. We are simply choosing whether we assume that people donate their organs after death, or do we _assume_ that they do not. Forgetting etc. apply in both cases (but if people forget to opt-in, someone because of lack of organs, in the other case no-one dies [we tend to value lives of our fellow citizens]) The state continuously assumes scores of things of all its citizens, we simply must democratically choose which things are assumed. And the state most certainly has the right to assume things like these (if you consider that it has not, please do provide an argument to support your claim). |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 75 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 183 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 97 |
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