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Bill: Abortion and Sexual Education Rights
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Forwardist 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: August 2036
Description[?]:
| Recognising that the decision to bring a child to term lies with the parents and not the government, this bill is being put forward in order to further promote Civil Rights of the nation. In addition to the right of the parents to decide the fate of the fetus, we also propose that all should be tought how to make proper decisions along the way, so that a case should no arise where one is needed. However, in the event that one is desired, the decision should remain firmly in the hands of the parents. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Policy on the legality of abortions
Old value:: All abortions are illegal.
Current: Abortion policies are established by local governments
Proposed: Abortion is allowed during the first trimester.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Sexual education in schools.
Old value:: This decision is up to the schools themselves without government regulation.
Current: Schools have an obligation to give sexual education at some point in puberty.
Proposed: Schools have an obligation to give sexual education at some point in puberty.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | not recorded | From | National Forwardist Party | To | Debating the Abortion and Sexual Education Rights |
| Message | Needless to say, i approve this bill |
| Date | not recorded | From | Social Calvinist Unionist Party | To | Debating the Abortion and Sexual Education Rights |
| Message | We believe that the teaching of sexual education is not up to the governent, but up to the parent's of the child. Also, Abortion should be allowed only in medical situations. You are taking away what will, one day, be a human life. Yes, it is not yet a human life, but unless the parent of the unborn child is at risk, they should have the child. They can give it up for adoption, but they shouldn't abort the child. (Of course, this does not count "day after" pills as abortion.) |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Abortion and Sexual Education Rights |
| Message | I approve this bill, it is a good strating point although in the future it would be preferable to allow allow abortion at any point as it is the women's choice as to what to do with her unborn child. |
| Date | not recorded | From | National Forwardist Party | To | Debating the Abortion and Sexual Education Rights |
| Message | Sent to a vote. If the LP would like to continue along the path that Article 1 takes after this bill has passed, they certainly have the discretion to do so |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Abortion and Sexual Education Rights |
| Message | Andrew McInally: I am not entirely sure that allowing abortion at any point is a sensible way to continue. Whilst I am fine with first-trimester abortions, as it seems that through medical advice says that at this point there is no sentience within the fetus, I have ethical concerns with the abortion of a foetus that is past the time when a foetus gains self-awareness. If a woman wishes to abort, she has plenty of time to do so in the first trimester. Abortions, in my view, should be safe, legal, and rare. Regardless, I have no qualms against this Bill, only on it going further. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 26 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 14 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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