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Bill: Organ donation liberty
Details
Submitted by[?]: Plinio's United Followers
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: October 2080
Description[?]:
| Again the goverment getting into more regulations that it can handle. A lot of people can live as well with only one kidney instead of 2!, who are we to block altruistic sacrifices with innecesary bureaucracy? |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning organ donations.
Old value:: Organ donations are only legal with personal consent, next-of-kin may override personal consent.
Current: Organ donations are legal with personal consent.
Proposed: The government enforces no regulation whatsoever.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:54:16, July 12, 2005 CET | From | Fantastic Party | To | Debating the Organ donation liberty |
| Message | This is ludicrous, I believe I represent our voters when I say 'we enjoy having our internal organs'. We shan't support this bill. |
| Date | 19:21:08, July 12, 2005 CET | From | Millennial Salvation Front | To | Debating the Organ donation liberty |
| Message | We agree with the above. If the IMA wants to take away our citizens' sovereignty over their own bodies, they should at admit that. |
| Date | 19:59:01, July 12, 2005 CET | From | Plinio's United Followers | To | Debating the Organ donation liberty |
| Message | Actually what we want to do is to give the individual ultimate sovereignity over their own bodies. If you want to donate an eye, why do you have to publizice it all over by informing the goverment that you indeed wish to donate an organ and sign time consuming paperwork. As you say, let the goverment out of the citizens own bodies. The goverment has no right to legislate there. |
| Date | 06:19:15, July 13, 2005 CET | From | Millennial Salvation Front | To | Debating the Organ donation liberty |
| Message | But a lack of regulation would allow those of questionable morality to take organs from people who are unable to provide consent. This is one area where the government must step in to protect the rights of the people. |
| Date | 16:24:01, July 13, 2005 CET | From | Plinio's United Followers | To | Debating the Organ donation liberty |
| Message | If a person cannot give consent for his/her own body, what good is it to the nation then?. At least let the people that have to take care of them gain something if they find it worthwhile, after all, those are the ones that have to take the moral and financial burden of caring for someone that will not care for itself. |
| Date | 19:10:33, July 13, 2005 CET | From | Millennial Salvation Front | To | Debating the Organ donation liberty |
| Message | Children are incapable of giving legal consent. Does the IMA really think that they are no good "to the nation"? For a libertarian party, that sounds awfully authoritarian. |
| Date | 19:51:39, July 13, 2005 CET | From | Plinio's United Followers | To | Debating the Organ donation liberty |
| Message | If a parent takes the burden and responsability of raising a child, then it is their choice what to do with their kids, not the goverment's, Before someone bombards me with possible cases of exploit, then let me tell you that that is the problem; we cannot prevent all possible scenarios; so we end up adding rule after rule to counter these cases, and after a while the law becomes the a greater problem than the original crime itself. I do not wish to harvest organs, I just want to stop the goverment from intervening in every aspect of our community. |
| Date | 20:14:23, July 13, 2005 CET | From | Plinio's United Followers | To | Debating the Organ donation liberty |
| Message | You are right about my wrongful use of the term "useful for the nation", it was a bit of populism thinking that got me thinking like that, the very thing that I abhor the most. I hope that you accept my apologies and vote for this bill now that you know that my utmost concern is for the individual. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 59 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 187 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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