Dear %NATION%,
The purpose of this telegram is to respectfully request that you vote FOR the current General Assembly resolution at vote, Repeal "Protection of Biomedical Research".
(If you've already voted in favour, sorry for bothering you! Unfortunately I don't have the ability to filter you out when sending telegrams to World Assembly members.)
The resolution being repealed was rushed to vote after only about a day or two of drafting; as a result, it is poorly written and contains critical errors. The key problem with the resolution is that it prohibits World Assembly member states from engaging in any regulation of biomedical ethics except where such regulation "serve[s] specifically to minimize or eliminate harm to life provably sentient or sapient at the time of research".
This is an absurdly broad restriction that bars numerous kinds of important regulation simply because they cannot be established as preventing direct harm to particular sapient or sentient life. Examples include:
securing legal protection from harmful medical experimentation to the historically vulnerable class of persons who, while not "provably sentient or sapient at the time of research" may indeed regain such capacity, such as individuals in comas or persistent vegetative states,
granting precautionary legal protection from potentially harmful medical experimentation to potentially sentient or sapient life that has not yet been definitively "proven" to be such, perhaps due to difficulties in communication,
requiring appropriate reverence for the remains of deceased sapient life in the course of biomedical research,
mandating that biomedical researchers abide by reasonable financial disclosure and conflict of interest rules, and
providing adequate legal protection for the environment, at least with respect to non-sapient plant, bacterial, and fungal life such as coral reefs and old-growth forests, in the context of biomedical research.
Moreover, the remaining provisions of the resolution are largely redundant in light of GAR #111, "Medical Research Ethics Act" and GAR #219, "Biomedical Innovation Org".
As such, it is fair to say that the substantive effect of this resolution is merely to frustrate the responsible regulation of biomedical research by member states. It should not be permitted to remain World Assembly law.
Thank you for considering this request. You can vote for the resolution here and view the forum thread here.
Best regards,
Martin Russell
Chief Ambassador, Auralian Mission to the World Assembly
The Catholic Federation of Auralia
And here's the telegram Tinfect sent out (which I got from Yuno):
Hello, you may be aware of the repeal of Protection of Biomedical Research that is currently at vote. I am sending this to you because the repeal consists, in its entirety, of outright lies and utterly frivolous claims that are themselves unsupported by the Target Resolution or other, referenced Legislation. For example, the repeal claims that the Resolution prevents Member-States from prohibiting Enviromental Damage in Biomedical Research; of course this is absurd, as Environmental Damage poses a substantial risk to Sapient Life, and as such, prevention of Environmental Damage is protected by the Resolution. And, of course, its claims that sections of the Resolution are 'redundant', is not only an outright lie, but rests upon absurd and damaging interpretations of Standing Legislation.
The Author of the Repeal proposes it for the sole purpose of pursuing a separate and incredibly damaging agenda, in this case, intending to pave the way for legislation allowing Member-States to prohibit life-saving Biomedical Research.
Knowing this, I urge you to vote against this incredibly dangerous repeal.
