Repeal "Legalise Euthanasia"
Resolution Text
| Category: | Repeal | Resolution: | #43 | Proposed By: | Pro-Sovereignty Babes |
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Description:
UN Resolution #43: Legalise Euthanasia (Category: Human Rights; Strength: Strong) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
Argument:
RECOGNIZES that the issue of Euthanasia is a difficult issue in which good people may, and often do, disagree.
ARGUES that euthanasia proposes to eliminate suffering by eliminating the one who suffers. Euthanasia violates the principle that each human being has intrinsic dignity and value, regardless of age, physical or mental condition, or state of dependency.
ACKNOWLEDGES this repeal will not prohibit Euthanasia in any nation, but permit it to be a daily issue in which a nation may decide this issue for themselves.
RECALLS Resolution #147 "Abortion Legality Convention" in which the controverial issue of abortion was taken out of the jurisdiction of the United Nations and returned to nations to decide. Euthanasia is a similar issue that should not have the world body mandate how every nation should believe.
FURTHER ARGUES The United Nations should be able to welcome nations that have differing opinions on controversial issues such as this one. The original vote on this resolution was 10,810 (for) to 10,031 (against). Such an obviously divisive issue should not be mandated upon nations one way or the other. Resolution #43 does exactly that.
REPEALS Resolution #43 "Legalize Euthanasia"
- Votes For: 8,478
- Votes Against: 5,258
- Implemented: Wed Jun 14 2006
