Ma'at Kheru: Repeal "On Abortion"

[Treize Dreizehn]

A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.


Category: Repeal


Resolution: GA#128


Proposed by: Christian Democrats

Description: WA General Assembly Resolution #128: On Abortion (Category: Human Rights; Strength: Mild) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: The General Assembly,

Recalling the passage of Resolution 286, Reproductive Freedoms, which provides a general right to abortion in international law,

Believing, therefore, that Resolution 128, On Abortion, which provides a limited right to abortion in international law, is no longer necessary,

Wishing to remove superfluities from international law,

Recognizing that On Abortion is also a resolution with many flaws, including:

On Abortion, when a pregnant person is incapacitated, allows next-of-kin to make abortion decisions, even if they are not acting in the best interests of the patient (example: refusing consent for a lifesaving abortion to be performed),

On Abortion, when a pregnant person is incapacitated, gives no alternative procedure for obtaining authorization for an emergency lifesaving abortion when no next-of-kin are available to provide consent,

On Abortion permits doctors, for personal moral reasons, to refuse to perform emergency lifesaving abortions, even when they are the only qualified people available to provide these urgent medical procedures,

On Abortion mandates that all abortion providers "be trained to the same accepted medical standards that all surgeons are held to" (emphasis added), even though not all abortion procedures are surgical,

Convinced that Resolution 29, the Patient's Rights Act, is wholly sufficient for protecting the medical rights of pregnant individuals,

Repeals Resolution 128, On Abortion, for the reasons outlined above.