In the vents of the World Assembly headquarters, over a conference room of delegates discussing a potential repeal of the two hundred eighty-sixth Resolution, a turtle slips papers through the grates revealing a proposed means of replacement in the event of the repeal of the "Reproductive Freedoms" resolution.
"I heard several of y'all wanted a replacement for the baby killin' resolution. I got one hee-yuh if y'all are interested."
[DRAFT]Honorable and Responsible Abortion Accord
Category: Civil Rights | Area of Effect: Mild | Proposed by: TurtleShroom
THE WORLD ASSEMBLY,
ACKNOWLEDGING the duty of member states to protect the lives of the innocent,
DECLARING that unborn offspring are equal members of the species as their parents, baring legal personhood and separate genetic makeup, and, in cases of viviparous organisms, separate from the pregnant mother,
NOTING that unborn non-humans require specific definitions and law, which are not defined clearly,
OBSERVING the need for regulations on abortion that are not anthropocentric, and
RESIGNING ITSELF to the fact that circumstances arise that neccesitate the termination of an unborn life,
Hereby resolves the following:1. All abortions shall be performed by medics recognized by their country of origin as permitted to practice surgical medicine. All abortion clinics shall be held to the country of origin's standards and regulations of hospitals and operating rooms. All abortion clinics shall be subject to the country of origin's medical sanitary regulations. Expecting couples that are under their nation's age of majority must have the explicit, written consent of all applicable parents or legal guardians in order to perform an abortion. All abortions must be voluntary; compulsory abortion is prohibited in any and all circumstances.
2. The termination of an unborn zygote, embryo, or fetus gestated within a viviparous organism, shall only be permitted in an instance that demonstratably endangers the life of the pregnant mother, in an instance where the unborn is gestating outside the womb, or in a medically demonstrable instance where the unborn will die if brought to term.
3. The termination of an unborn, fertilized egg within an ovoviviparous being shall only be permitted before the egg is internally hatched.
4. The termination of an unborn, oviparous being shall not be permitted after the egg is laid.
5. An unborn zygote, embryo, or fetus of any type shall not be terminated after a time period in which it has been medically demonstrated and proven that it is capable of feeling pain, unless there is a grevious or certain endangerment on the mother's life if the fetus is carried to term. During the course of an emergency abortion, all attempts shall be made to assuage the pain of a fetus capable of registring it.
6. A viviparous fetus shall not be terminated by the procedure of Intact Dilation and Extraction or any other late-stage abortion requiring physical dismemberment.
7. Partial birth dismemberment of a viviparous fetus is prohibited.
8. Nations shall be permitted to allow for the termination of unborn zygotes, embryoes, or fetuses in the event that their conception demonstratably occured in the process of an act of rape, should they so by law direct, and subject to the provisions of this Resolution.
9. No unborn entity may be electively aborted on the basis of biological sex or physical attributes, absent the above exceptions.
10. Resucitation and protection of an unborn entity that survives an abortion attempt must be rendered in all circumstances.
11. All artificially fertilized, viviparous zygotes and embryoes shall be frozen for future impregnation instead of discarded.
12. In the event of a species that reproduces in such a way that cannot be biologically classed as viviparous, ovoparous, or ovoviviparous, individual nations shall, factoring in the provisions, prohibitions, and definitions above, define "pregnancy" and the definitions of zygote, embroy, and fetus (if applicable) in a way recognized by the medical community of the nation, with the intent of the preservation of the unborn absent the conditions listed as a valid reason to terminate an unborn entity.
13. The consent of all living participants in the initial conception of the unborn shall be required in order to terminate an unborn zygote, fetus, or embryo of any kind, except in the following circumstances:
A) One party to the pregnancy engaged in an act of rape, as defined by the laws of the member state.
B) One party to the pregnancy has commited an act of domestic abuse or violence against the impregnated party, as defined by the laws of the member state.
C) In these circumstances, only the consent of the fertilized party is neccessary to terminate an unborn zygote, fetus, or embryo, unless the provisions of the fourteenth clause are invoked.
14. In the instances where one or more minors have conceived offspring, the explicit, written notification and consent of all living parents or legal guardians over all minors involved is mandatory in order to proceed with the termination of the pregnancy, subject to the sub-sections "A" and "B", in the provisions of the thirteenth clause. In the event of the invocation of the thirteenth clause, only the explicit, written notification and consent of the fertilized minor's parents are required. This clause does not apply to wards of the state, orphans, or offspring of unknown or untracable parents.
15. An illegal abortion is to be considered an act of murder and the party directly commiting the actual act of abortion shall be charged accordingly, subject to the definitions and laws of the member state. Member states may, should they so by law direct, elect to prescribe criminal penalties or liabilities to the mother who solicited the illicit abortion, should they so desire.
16. This act does not apply to species that reproduce by mitosis or asexual reproduction, or if offspring are never in an unborn or gestating state, as defined by the laws of the member state.