Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 7:30 am
We shall abstain.
Because sometimes even national leaders just want to hang out
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Knootoss wrote:I'm sorry, but the word access does not imply flyer, but a clear mandate for WA-run services. If you are drowning and I have to provide you with access to my lifeguard services, would you understand that to be as me tossing a flyer at you?
Your nation could fulfil its duties by making this information available in the basement of the national health office, where both the lights and the stairs had been removed, in an old filing cabinet locked in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying “Beware of the Leopard.” That is the only legal obligation in this resolution. (And since I know you're going to cite 5a, note that it says "in accordance with local and national laws", meaning you could have a local or national law saying that, while access to the information is legal, all of the services are illegal.) If you want to repeal it, you should repeal it for being a piece of lovey-dovey optional crap that does absolutely nothing.2. AFFIRMS the right of individuals to access information regarding abortion reduction services;
Embolalia wrote:So pass zoning laws saying that international governmental agencies can only be placed in the middle of rural, mountainous regions! (Or even pass a law saying that international agencies can't provide information about abortion services.
Embolalia wrote: As long as someone is providing the information, and the WHA is allowed to provide the services themselves, you're within your duties.)
Embolalia wrote: There's nothing that says the WHA has to be the only provider of abortion services, or information about them.
Embolalia wrote: (Nor is there anything that says the WHA has to provide the information, only the services themselves.)
Embolalia wrote: Look, the resolution is poorly written and worthless, I'll give you that, but your repeal is straight up wrong.
Knootoss wrote:The only real /rule/ cited is that abstinence education as mentioned is a "Real life reference" somehow. This is so patently silly that I'm just going to sit out my appeal and wait for the mods to twist their justification for pulling this resolution into something that actually cites the rules. The good part is, the way that the mod who pulled this interprets the TCT resolution makes it completely and utterly optional, since one can just define abstinence education as "cheese".
Congratulations to the person who managed to kill one of my projects yet again through GHR-legalese rather than actual argument, though. I have a feeling who you are, and the favour will hopefully be returned some time soon. =)
EXPANDS the mission of the World Health Authority and its offices in WA member states to include providing universal access to abortion reduction services in accordance with national and local laws
(1) abstinence education, (2) adoption services, (3) contraceptives, (4) family planning services, (5) pre-natal, obstetric, and post-natal medical care, counseling, and services, (6) comprehensive sex education, and (7) education, awareness, prevention, and counseling programs to prevent rape and incest
EXPANDS the mission of the World Health Authority and its offices in WA member states to include providing universal access to (1) abstinence education, (2) adoption services, (3) contraceptives, (4) family planning services, (5) pre-natal, obstetric, and post-natal medical care, counseling, and services, (6) comprehensive sex education, and (7) education, awareness, prevention, and counseling programs to prevent rape and incest, in accordance with national and local laws
Unibot II wrote:Dr. Castro apparently has not read Reduction of Abortion thoroughly , the topic of Reduction of Abortion is not blocking abortion, but exactly what it says, reducing the need for abortion by providing contraceptives and promoting a comprehensive sex education. Osteric death was and is continued to be prevented when this Assembly put aside its petty differences momentarily to pass this landmark piece of legislation.
OOC: Kenny's ethics proposal is also not contradicting to the Reduction of Abortion and is fully compatible, I believe. That's the beauty of Reduction of Abortion.
Koopman's proposal is a lie. NOTHING in Reduction of Abortion says that member-nations do not maintain their own ability to write literature on sex education, 5.b states that the WA will coordinate its own research and publish, but nowhere in the bill does the letter of the law actually state that the WA and member-nations cannot conduct their own research and publish their own research independently. The burden of proof lies on Koopman to find this clause which simply does not exist.
"DEEPLY CONCERNED" of this repeal uses misleading language, Koopman's 'think-of-the-children' rhetoric neglects to inform readers that GA#44 does not require students to be actively taught about abortion reduction services. The resolution specifically writes : "AFFIRMS the right of individuals to access information regarding abortion reduction services". It affirms that as an individual you have the right to read literature on many things including, yes, abstinence. Should we ought to limit the right to information? No. Does GA#44 mandate this information be taught in classrooms? No. GA#44 simply says an individual has the right to access this information.
Why should we not limit the right to information? (1) If a belief is true but thought to false, whether or not Koopman believes it to be true, people can benefit from it and re-declare/declare it as true information, (2) If a belief is false but thought to be true, through reading, discourse and thought -- these myths can be exposed as false, (3) if a belief is true and known to be true, you're hiding beneficial information from the people, (4) If a belief is false and known to be false, its existence will allow it to be considered and ultimately rejected by those who argue it -- allowing the reasons for the information's rejection to be freshly circulated and not forgotten.
I am OPPOSED to this repeal and indefinitely roll my eyes at Koopman's inability to either, (1) read clearly and interpret without aimlessly including his own strawman clauses as c.4½, c.4¼ ...ect. into resolutions' text other than his own, or, (2) withdraw his agenda of hackery and political deception.
so basically clause 5a says:
EXPANDS the mission of the World Health Authority and its offices in WA member states to include providing universal access to (1) abstinence education, (2) adoption services, (3) contraceptives, (4) family planning services, (5) pre-natal, obstetric, and post-natal medical care, counseling, and services, (6) comprehensive sex education, and (7) education, awareness, prevention, and counseling programs to prevent rape and incest, in accordance with national and local laws
This is what Knoot is objecting to. The WHA is, in accordance with national and local laws, itself providing adoption services, condoms, medical care for pregnant women, sex education, counseling and "abstinence education."
Knootoss wrote:Random nations posting with literal quotes of Unibot/GR and completely ignoring the rebuttals seems to be the trend in this thread. After all, why formulate your own argument when you can just quote someone? Repetition makes an argument stronger. Right?
Knootoss wrote:This repeal has been removed on a technicality, no doubt courtesy of a GHR from an un-named party.
Glen-Rhodes wrote:Knootoss wrote:Random nations posting with literal quotes of Unibot/GR and completely ignoring the rebuttals seems to be the trend in this thread. After all, why formulate your own argument when you can just quote someone? Repetition makes an argument stronger. Right?
For the record, Unibot and I disagree with each other about this repeal... I still plan on voting for this repeal, as I said when it was first proposed.
Knootoss wrote:The only real /rule/ cited is that abstinence education as mentioned is a "Real life reference" somehow.
2. RoAA includes a range of action to be taken in regards to reducing abortion. These actions include and are not limited to comprehensive education, which can include brief instruction on abstinence. Your clause on the subject states in no uncertain terms that this resolution [...]forces Member States to expose their children to so-called 'abstinence education' programmes[...]. This is, first, a reading based on the meaning of the term in a specific real-world situation, a RW program introduced during the term of a RW President in the RW United States. Your reading is not the generic meaning of the term.
Second, even if this restrictive, real-world meaning were admitted, this would be a valid point only if it were the sole requirement for sexual education.