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Bill: The Responsible Abortion Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Söhne der Freiheit
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: December 2080
Description[?]:
| Due to recent lack of a clear position on abortion, we re-introduce this bill to a new National Council. It's irresponsible and detrimental to our moral fiber and blurs the line between moral and immoral killing for people to obtain abortions simply because they failed to practice safe sex, or abstain from sex in general. Although the CTP denounces contraception, it believes that it is a better choice than killing. So the CTP proposes a restriction of abortion's legality to purely medical matters and rape. Anyone wishing to obtain an abortion would have to receive a prescription from a doctor authorized by the state, and this prescription would have to be validated by the local government. In the case of rape the local police commissioner would confirm the woman was in fact raped or most likely raped. It would also be legal if in the process of giving birth that proceding would kill either the mother or the baby. The prescription must be validated or invalidated within a week, and if it is not, it is considered valid. Giving an illicit abortion bears fines up to $25,000, up to six months in jail, and may result in a medical liscense to be revoked. Doctors authorized to prescribe abortions are subject to routine inspections by the regional government. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Policy on the legality of abortions
Old value:: Abortion is allowed during the first trimester.
Current: Abortion is allowed during the first and second trimesters.
Proposed: Abortions are only allowed in medical emergencies.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:21:11, July 13, 2005 CET | From | Söhne der Freiheit | To | Debating the The Responsible Abortion Act |
| Message | Please disregard the other bill, I forgot to add the proposal to it. |
| Date | 22:49:38, July 13, 2005 CET | From | Proletariat Revolution Party | To | Debating the The Responsible Abortion Act |
| Message | CTP, I think part of the basic principle here could be transferred into a resolution as an amendment to the current law so that when the first trimester is over, the fetus gets the proection proposed here. It is in the second trimester that many of the crucial organs develop fully. So, maybe you could write this so it's strictly medical for after the first trimester? That way you can do this and it gets passed, even if the law in theory isn't changed. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 117 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 208 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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