GENERAL ASSEMBLY
VOTING THREAD
"Access to Abortion"
A resolution to modify universal standards of healthcare.
Category: Health | Area of Affect: Healthcare
| Proposed by: Imperium Anglorum | Status: Quorum Reached; In Queue |
Quote:Whereas many patriarchal nations lack qualified medical professionals who are willing to perform abortions, meaning that the ability to access them is non-existent without funds needed for foreign travel, therefore denying constructively abortion rights merely because of income and birth location:And whereas discrimination in state policy or administration of tax on abortion recipients and providers is unfair and grossly unjust:Be it enacted by this august World Assembly as follows:
- Definitions. In this resolution,
- abortion means a medical procedure to terminate a pregnancy deliberately,
- recipient bona fide means a natural person demonstrating a bona fide desire for a commodity or service,
- resolution means General Assembly resolution,
- member means member nation, and
- tax includes solidarity contributions and other compulsory payments made to the state.
- Funding. Members must pay for or provide directly abortions, abortifacients, and contraceptives requested by any recipient bona fide within their jurisdiction. Members must also provide a means to access such services and commodities speedily and free at the point of service or provision.
- Non-discrimination. No members may:
- discriminate against a recipient or provider of abortion or contraceptives in collection of tax,
- discriminate against abortion providers on account of occupation,
- prosecute any person for receiving or providing: section 7 compliant abortions, contraceptives, or truthful medical advice or education thereon, or
- prohibit section 7 compliant contraceptives or abortifacients or levy discriminatory tariffs or tax against them.
- Clinics. There shall be established regularly accessible clinics, funded by contributions assessed by the GAO, to offer quick, easy, and safe abortions to any willing recipient. All members shall contribute in proportion of use, to the GAO for this purpose.
- Members must arrange entirely subsidised travel, for any recipient bona fide and one person of the recipient's choice to receive care offered by such a clinic, if one is not speedily accessible. No limitation may be placed by a member on a person's ability to travel to a clinic unless permitted by resolution.
- Clinics must provide free contraceptives and free childcare to any address serviceable by post within a member as well as free care and counselling for expectant parents. It may also provide other services assigned to it by resolution.
- Clinic lease terms. Any member state that so wishes may request that the World Assembly fund construction of such clinics. The clinics will be built on land donated by national or local governments where the member doing so grants to the clinic a 99 year renewable lease in which (a) no direct tax or (b) indirect tax in excess of one per cent may be collected, along with the following conditions:
- That member agrees to charter a not-for-profit corporation under its laws, which must not be treated differently from any other such corporation.
- That not-for-profit corporation must be granted in the aforementioned lease, a non-negotiable option to receive, upon disestablishment of the clinic, operation, assets, and liabilities of the clinic. It must also be a party to the lease aforementioned and hold usufructuary rights to the leased territory.
- Sex-selective abortions. Notwithstanding any other provision of this resolution and unless otherwise indicated by resolution, members may restrict access to or section 2 funding for an abortion if a sex-selective basis impels its request.
- Health and safety. The World Health Authority must issue regulations to ensure abortions, abortifacients, and contraceptives available to the general public and provided by the Clinic are safe and effective for the end-user and those with which they may be in close contact. Such regulations overrule those made by members unless demonstrable to the Independent Adjudicative Office the insufficiency of those WHA regulations in fulfilling the mandate of this section.
- Interpretation. In this resolution: older resolutions overrule conflicting provisions of this resolution; provisions of this resolution found to contradict previous resolution do not render unenforceable severable provisions of this resolution; singular words include the plural unless otherwise indicated; and section headers have no effect.
DO NOTE THAT THIS IS A VOTING THREAD. PLEASE DISCUSS THE RESOLUTION IN THE CORRESPONDING DISCUSSION THREAD.
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(This post was last modified: 04-26-2020, 01:21 PM by rosaferri.)
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