Auralia, for instance, effectively prohibits abortion within its jurisdiction by banning the trafficking in medical supplies or equipment used to perform abortions, though abortion itself remains legal. We satisfy the abortion facilities mandate by referring people overseas.
This blocker is necessary to stave off proposals like Reproductive Freedoms, which would completely legalize abortion in all member nations.
Category: Human Rights | Strength: Mild
Aware of the controversy surrounding abortion,
Affirming the right of member nations to legalize abortion through domestic law or World Assembly resolution, as originally established by GAR #128, "On Abortion",
Nevertheless believing that the World Assembly should permit individual member nations to answer the abortion question for themselves, to the extent permitted by previous World Assembly resolutions,
The General Assembly,
1. Defines abortion as the intentional termination of a pregnancy resulting in or accompanied by the death of the prenatal offspring;
2. Recognizes induced abortion as a medical procedure subject to the same general regulations as all other medical procedures under domestic or international law, including but not limited to regulations on patient rights and consent to medical care;
3. Affirms the right of member nations to legalize abortion through domestic law or World Assembly resolution,
4. Clarifies that this applies only to the legalization of abortion itself, and not to supplementary acts closely related to abortion;
5. Permits member nations to freely regulate any and all such supplementary acts within their jurisdiction, subject only to the provisions of this and previous World Assembly resolutions;
6. Directs member nations not to use their freedom to regulate such supplementary acts so as to effectively preclude a pregnant individual from receiving appropriate lifesaving medical treatment, even when the termination of pregnancy is an unavoidable side effect of such treatment.