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Repeal "On Abortion"
A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.Category: RepealTarget: GA#128Proposed by: Tinhampton
General Assembly Resolution #128 “On Abortion” (Category: Human Rights; Strength: Mild) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
Believing that every person has the right to bodily sovereignty, including the right to seek an abortion; and also that resolutions which, if repealed, would not significantly change a member state's obligations under international law should be struck from the statute books,
Recognising that GA#286 "Reproductive Freedoms" also supercedes Articles 1, 2, and 6 (as well as the second part of Article 4) of GA#128; in making the right to an abortion universal, ensuring that it can be safely and readily accessed, and guaranteeing that nobody who wants an abortion is deterred for seeking a "medical procedure,"
Declaring that GA#286 also renders Article 7 of the target resolution unnecessary, being itself a byproduct of the dispensation the WA gave itself in that article to legally expand the right to an abortion,
Noting that - due to the above interpretations - GA#29, the "Patient's Rights Act," pre-emptively supercedes Article 3 of the target resolution in requiring that patients be "involved in decisions concerning their care" - including abortion - and that they may refuse consent to medical treatment like abortion in almost all cases,
Concerned that Article 5 of GA#128, which allows doctors to conscientiously opt out of carrying out abortions, could force individuals into seeking "backstreet abortions" of dubious safety if there are not enough doctors in their area willing to legally perform abortion,
Hopeful that, while the guarantee in the first part of Article 4 of GA#128 is not free-standing in any other resolution, its members will take the utmost care in ensuring that anybody who intends to carry out an abortion is qualified to do so, and
Concluding that GA#128 is unnecessary in light of other legislation passed by this august body; and that its repeal WILL NOT IMPAIR anybody's right to seek an abortion for any reason within the World Assembly's jurisdiction...
The General Assembly hereby repeals GA#128 "On Abortion."