Repeal "Abortion Rights"

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There have been several attempts made to repeal the Abortion Rights resolution, but it was not until Feb. 2006 that Dorksonia's repeal achieved quorum and eventually passed.

Resolution History

Overview

After the passage of the Abortion Rights resolution, the seemingly unending debate amongst UN members concerning domestic abortion laws cooled down to occassional campaigns to repeal the resolution. However, once Dorksonia's repeal reached the floor, the UN hall became a hot bed of political activity and heated emotions. The official UN Floor Debate was over 27 pages long, and sadly saw growing tensions between a number of long time nations that had peacefully worked together in a number of previous UN campaigns. Fearing that the repeal would pass, prochoice and sovereigntist governments alike drafted a number of competing replacement resolutions, two of which achieved quorum days after Repeal "Abortion Rights" was adopted by the United Nations.


UN Debate

Resolution Text

Repeal "Abortion Rights"
A proposal to repeal a previously passed resolution.
Category: Repeal Resolution: #61 Proposed By: Dorksonia

Description:

UN Resolution #61: Abortion Rights (Category: Human Rights; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.


Argument:

RECOGNIZES that abortion is an issue where good people on each side of this issue disagree.

PRAISES the concern for women in crisis and with needs.

POINTS OUT Resolution #61 provides no details or reasons for it's argument.

EMPHASIZES Resolution #61 does not limit abortion to "Women's health" during later trimesters, but allows a woman to have an abortion for any reason whatsoever (age, gender of the baby, etc.), for no reason whatsoever, without parental consent, without spousal consent, and at any any point up to and including the ninth month of pregnancy.

ACKNOWLEDGES this repeal will not prohibit any abortions, but permit it to be a daily issue in which a nation may decide this issue for themselves.

NOTES people are passionate on both sides of this issue and repealing this issue will indeed be "pro-choice" (member nations may choose to permit abortions for any reason, limit it as they deem necessary, or prohibit).

CONSIDERS the further medical technology of prenatal surgery deeming the unborn child as a "patient" and questions if abortion does not protect the rights of these individuals based on their location.

QUESTIONS if women are able to make informed choices without further research into the pychological and emotional side effects of such a common surgical procedure.

REPEALS resolution #61 "Abortion Rights"

Votes For: 7,630
Votes Against: 6,519
Implemented: Tue Feb 14 2006


Voting Analysis

Gameplay Impacts

This repeal had no immediate impacts on the way NationStates was played, however, it did lead to extended discussions about the nature of civil rights and moral decency resolutions and which of these two UN resolution categories would best represent future abortion related proposals. This repeal also opened the way for the Abortion Legality Convention to be legally submitted.


Additional Materials

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