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Bill: WOMEN PROTECTION ACT OF 4607
Details
Submitted by[?]: Baltusian Conservative Party
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: December 4607
Description[?]:
| The Baltusian Conservative Party believes that women have the right to serve in the military alongside men. Our party and this government have always promoted gender equality, giving the same opportunities to our men, women, and LGBTS. However, we believe that it is also our duty to protect the women from vigorous activities that will harm them in a lot of aspects. The following is a list of issues at the center of the debate whether or not gender integration lends to combat effectiveness. The debate centers more on the physical characteristics of individual women rather than the question of their overall contributions to teams and units. A detailed study was also done by Peter Grant, Minister of Defense and Ret. GEN Michael Philip McCain on the ongoing debate, which categorizes the following criticisms: 1. Physical concerns Female soldiers are, on average, shorter and smaller than men, with 45-50% less upper body strength and 25-30% less aerobic capacity, which is essential for endurance” Motherhood accounts for 58% of hospitalizations among active-duty female troops. A recent experiment by the Baltusian Marine Corps with a gender-integrated combat unit found that women were twice as likely to suffer injuries significant enough to remove them from duty, and that women's shooting accuracy was much less than that of men in simulated combat situations. Female soldiers were also found to have lower performance in the basic combat tasks like negotiating obstacles and removing wounded troops from the battlefield. The female skeletal system is less dense, and more prone to breakages. There is also a concern that, in aviation, the female body is not as adept at handling the increased g-forces experienced by combat pilots. However, there is evidence that the male body is less able to handle the g-forces than the female body with regard to black outs: women are less likely to black out due to shorter blood vessel routes in the neck. Furthermore, health issues regarding women are argued as the reason that some submarine services avoid accepting women, although mixed-gender accommodations in a small space is also an issue, as is explained in more depth below. 2. Social concerns The purported disruption of a combat unit's morale is cited as another reason for women to be banned from front-line combat situations. There is a secondary concern that romantic relationships between men and women on the front lines could disrupt a unit's fighting capability and a fear that a high number of women would deliberately become pregnant in order to escape combat duties A third argument against the inclusion of women in combat units is that placing women in combat where they are at risk of being captured and tortured and possibly sexually assaulted is unacceptable. Finally, there is the argument that by not incorporating women into combat, the Baltusian government is failing to tap into another source of soldiers for military combat operations. This argument claims that the government is creating a military that treats women as second-class citizens and not equals of men. 3. Tactical concerns Ret. Lt. Col. Theodore Samson Jones mentions that female soldiers in the Tukarali Defense Forces have been officially prohibited from serving in close combat military operations. The reason for removing female soldiers from the front lines was due less to the performance of female soldiers, and more due to the behavior of the male infantrymen after witnessing a woman wounded. The TDF saw a complete loss of control over soldiers who apparently experienced an instinctual protective aggression that was uncontrollable, severely degrading the unit's combat effectiveness. The armed forces have voiced out that they are reluctant to take women on reconnaissance or special operations, as they fear that in the case of combat or discovery, their priority will be to save the women and not to complete the mission. Thus while men might be able to be programmed to kill, it is not as easy to program men to neglect women. Recent studies from Ralston University have shown that group intelligence of an organization rises when women are on teams. Women tend to bring a level of sensitivity and the ability to read emotions of other people. In today's battlefield experiences, social sensitivity is a very much needed skill for military professionals. Having women in the military would dramatically increase the ability to extract critical intelligence. This could possibly be the difference between a mission’s success or failure. This Act is not anti-feminism and sexist nor segregationist but rather protectionist. Women shall still be given the chance to serve in the army in non-battle positions and that is the general provision, however, the Ministry of Defense can make exceptions and let women serve alongside men as long as these women have the qualifications that prove their capability to withstand and endure the vigorous military environment. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Women in the military.
Old value:: Women serve alongside men.
Current: Women serve alongside men.
Proposed: Women can only serve in non-battle positions.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 08:40:16, July 17, 2019 CET | From | Democratic Conservative Party (DCP) | To | Debating the WOMEN PROTECTION ACT OF 4607 |
| Message | Why are you being so discriminate? |
| Date | 09:36:44, July 17, 2019 CET | From | Baltusian Conservative Party | To | Debating the WOMEN PROTECTION ACT OF 4607 |
| Message | This is not discriminatory. We stand for gender equality. Women shall still be given the chance to serve in the army in non-battle positions and that is the general provision, however, the Ministry of Defense can make exceptions and let women serve alongside men as long as these women have the qualifications that prove their capability to withstand and endure the vigorous military environment. Meaning, if a woman has the capability to withstand the hardship, she can serve in battle positions. |
| Date | 12:41:56, July 17, 2019 CET | From | Democratic Conservative Party (DCP) | To | Debating the WOMEN PROTECTION ACT OF 4607 |
| Message | Then the default should be to allow women in and we will only stop them from going to fight if, for example they have been pregnant in the past 3 years. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 474 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 176 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: When forming a cabinet, try to include as few parties as possible, while still obtaining a majority of the seats. |
| Random quote: "If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon." - George Aiken |