[Defeated] Protection of Partially Born

Cormac · Post by **Cormac** » Tue Jul 19, 2016 9:50 pm

Protection of Partially Born
A resolution to restrict civil freedoms in the interest of moral decency.

Category: Moral Decency | Strength: Mild | Proposed by: Ovybia
Description: Recognizing that the procedure of ending the life of a partially born child, known legally as child destruction, is gruesome, gravely unjust, and medically unnecessary,

Noting that the procedure is not only needlessly bloody but also dangerous,

Understanding that a mother has no legitimate interest or right to end her child's life once the birth process has started,

Observing that most intelligent species, including mankind, are well-developed at the time of birth; each having a living brain, beating heart, or their functional equivalents; and are, in every way, persons who are entitled to full and equal recognition of their dignity and protection under the law of their inherent rights,

The General Assembly hereby:

1. Defines,
- child destruction as an overt act or intentional attempt to end a child's life during birth;
- birth, as used in this resolution, as the second and third stages of labor, namely the passing of a child from the uterus and through the birth canal as well as the expulsion of the afterbirth;
- pregnancy as the state of an individual having an offspring develop within the uterus;

2. Requires that all member states criminalize and duly prosecute child destruction as a form of homicide, except when the procedure is used as a medical necessity to save an individual's life;

3. Clarifies that this resolution does not, in any way, interfere with the legal right to abortion.

Co-authored by:
The Life At All Stages Republic of United Massachusetts
The Most Holy and Grand Empire of Christian Democrats

Citizens may vote For, Against, or Abstain. A vote of Abstain is a vote for the Pharaoh to abstain from voting.

Lamb · Post by **Lamb** » Tue Jul 19, 2016 10:06 pm

Against.

This resolution refuses to even acknowledge the notion of complicated births or severe defects, in which refraining from doing so could be considered as worse and even tortures.

Gradea · Post by **Gradea** » Tue Jul 19, 2016 10:06 pm

Aw hell no.

Nay.

Ridersyl · Post by **Ridersyl** » Tue Jul 19, 2016 11:57 pm

Against.

Cormac · Post by **Cormac** » Wed Jul 20, 2016 3:16 am

0-3-0. Will vote against when this goes to vote at minor, or whenever I'm online after minor, unless the forum vote shifts.

Post by **Rushtaria** » Wed Jul 20, 2016 4:50 am

*adds another nope in*

Transdavisia · Post by **Transdavisia** » Wed Jul 20, 2016 10:44 am

Cormac · Post by **Cormac** » Wed Jul 20, 2016 4:16 pm

1-4-0. Voting against.

Post by **Tim Stark** » Wed Jul 20, 2016 4:17 pm

Absolute Nope