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Bill: LPH-02-Abortion Access Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal Party of Hutori
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: March 4696
Description[?]:
| Mr.Speaker, This bill seeks to allow women to seek an abortion in the first trimester if they choose to do so. Susan Clarke, Leader of the Liberal Party |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Policy on the legality of abortions
Old value:: Abortions are only allowed in medical emergencies.
Current: Abortion is allowed during the first trimester.
Proposed: Abortion is allowed during the first trimester.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:14:51, January 14, 2020 CET | From | National Progressive Union | To | Debating the LPH-02-Abortion Access Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, We sponsored and supported legislation that would make this change two years ago, and we will support this now. Women have the right to bodily autonomy, and we won't rest until the laws of Hutori represent the will of the Hutorian people on this issue. Claire Hollis National Progressive Union MP Chair of the Progressive Caucus |
| Date | 01:56:31, January 15, 2020 CET | From | Hutori Party | To | Debating the LPH-02-Abortion Access Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, If legalizing non-medical abortions was truly the will of the Hutorian people as the member opposite says, why did more than 61 percent of Hutorians vote for parties that are against it? Furthermore, a medical emergency, as the current law states, is defined under the Hutorian Healthcare Act as "a scenario where the mother is physically or mentally unable to carry the child to term, and it is too early in the pregnancy for the child to be able to survive being born." This covers any mental illness that would prevent a mother from being able to carry the child to term, any physical condition that makes the mother unable to carry the child to term, and any case where the child had been conceived as a result of the mother being raped. If a woman feels that she cannot take care of the child after birth, Hutori has a world class adoption system, that gives the mother the ability to still have contact with her child if she so chooses. There have been many studies that show that adopted children go on to live just as happy, healthy and normal of a life as any other child in this country. There is not a single other reason for a woman to have an abortion. Abortion cannot be used as a form of birth control, there are plenty of other ways to prevent a pregnancy before it starts, and under Hutorian law contraceptives are provided to citizens free of charge. Hon. MacKenzie Donnelly MP for Tremaine Wascana Minister of Foreign Affairs |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 252 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 393 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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