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Bill: Health and Welfare Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: House of Thompson
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: July 2036
Description[?]:
| To improve the health and welfare of all Luthorians without regard to status, wealth, gender, race or creed. |
Proposals
Article 1
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 allowed with consent from the patient and the treating doctor.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy toward marriage.
Old value:: The government only recognises civil marriages between a man and a woman.
Current: The government allows all consenting adults to obtain civil marriage contracts.
Proposed: The government allows all consenting adults to obtain civil marriage contracts.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The use of cannabis for medicinal purposes.
Old value:: The medicinal use of cannabis is illegal.
Current: Cannabis is legal as a sedative for patients in pain.
Proposed: Cannabis is legal as a sedative for patients in pain.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | not recorded | From | National Forwardist Party | To | Debating the Health and Welfare Act |
| Message | How does Article 2 promote the 'welfare of all Luthorians without regard to status, wealth, gender, race or creed'? if you leave it up to local governments, isn't it possible, nay: likely, that they will enact something that discriminates against a group of people? If number two is eliminated (or changed to 'government opens marrige to consenting adults') i will be for it. as it is now, i will not |
| Date | not recorded | From | House of Thompson | To | Debating the Health and Welfare Act |
| Message | I did change it, hopefully that sastifies you. |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Health and Welfare Act |
| Message | I can't see any problems with this bill, and support it. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Social Calvinist Unionist Party | To | Debating the Health and Welfare Act |
| Message | While we believe that religious groups can choose who they allow to marry(I.E. take vows), wew believe that CIVIL UNIONS are fine and are up to the state. Marriage, however, is something up to the religion. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Social Calvinist Unionist Party | To | Debating the Health and Welfare Act |
| Message | Oh, and we are against the use of Cannabis for pain-relief. Use morphine if you must, or THC, but not cannabis itself. |
| Date | not recorded | From | National Forwardist Party | To | Debating the Health and Welfare Act |
| Message | so you say that athiests are not allowed to marry? what if a religion started that allowed gays to marry, would you support that? if a preist or rabbi went against his faith to let gays marry, would you support that? why not just open it to everyone? it's the only fair way to do this. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Social Calvinist Unionist Party | To | Debating the Health and Welfare Act |
| Message | But you are violating the rights of the religous institutions! They are NOT part of the state(which you don't seem to grasp), and must be allowed to do what they wish(short of genocide, of course). If a religion started that stated that it would marry gays GREAT! All the much better! Besides, Atheists don't belong to churches per se, so they won't be affected by this. At all. |
| Date | not recorded | From | National Forwardist Party | To | Debating the Health and Welfare Act |
| Message | no, no, no. you said "we believe that religious groups can choose who they allow to marry." that means that atheists cannot marry. GJ on that one. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Social Calvinist Unionist Party | To | Debating the Health and Welfare Act |
| Message | Religious groups can choose who THEY allow to marry. As in who they allow to marry IN THEIR GROUP. If the atheist group decides to let anyone marry, then they can marry! It's as easy as that! (Although I can see it's really confusing. Seeing how Atheists don't belong to a religious group... A-ha! I have an Idea!) |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 26 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 14 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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