General Assembly Q&A

[Willania Imperium]

Willania Imperium, please disengage rather than continue to respond to these posts.

Alright. I'll wait for the GHR to be delivered and responded.

[Naifon]

I'd also be up for kicking them out of NS or at the very least censoring them (since the "ignore" feature certainly doesn't get rid of their visibility to the rest of the NS universe). If you have any suggestions on how to craft such proposals, of course.

All the Imperium nations remind me of this glorious video.

[North Eastern New England]

Does "Reproductive Freedoms" legalize abortion, in any case, as a medical procedure, or just require it to be a medical procedure in all cases that either an individual nation, or "On Abortion" has legalized it?

[Araraukar]

Does "Reproductive Freedoms" legalize abortion, in any case, as a medical procedure, or just require it to be a medical procedure in all cases that either an individual nation, or "On Abortion" has legalized it?

Combined, Reproductive Freedoms and On Abortion make abortion a medical procedure that can be perforned at any point of the pregnancy at will of the pregnant individual, and which the member nations must make legal, available and affordable/free for their inhabitants.

Does that answer your questions?

[Lost Brotherhood]

Would something like requiring that new proposals define arbitrary terms such as "close range" be fair game, or is that looked upon in a similar fashion to creating a new game mechanic (i.e. disallowed by WA Guidelines)?

[Bananaistan]

Would something like requiring that new proposals define arbitrary terms such as "close range" be fair game, or is that looked upon in a similar fashion to creating a new game mechanic (i.e. disallowed by WA Guidelines)?

It would depend on the context. All resolutions need to fall into one of the excepted categories and to have some sort of effect on member states. A proposal merely laying some definitions would not.

[Araraukar]

Would something like requiring that new proposals define arbitrary terms such as "close range" be fair game, or is that looked upon in a similar fashion to creating a new game mechanic (i.e. disallowed by WA Guidelines)?

It would depend on the context. All resolutions need to fall into one of the excepted categories and to have some sort of effect on member states. A proposal merely laying some definitions would not.

But there is precedent for redefining easily understood terms as something ridiculous in a joke-like manner, if that's what they meant.

[North Eastern New England]

Does "Reproductive Freedoms" legalize abortion, in any case, as a medical procedure, or just require it to be a medical procedure in all cases that either an individual nation, or "On Abortion" has legalized it?

Combined, Reproductive Freedoms and On Abortion make abortion a medical procedure that can be perforned at any point of the pregnancy at will of the pregnant individual, and which the member nations must make legal, available and affordable/free for their inhabitants.

Does that answer your questions?

Almost, but, combined, do they legalize abortion for any reason? or only certain reasons, like rape or danger to the mother's health/life?

[Bruke]

Our country is very divided on the issue, and lets each province decide for itself. Abortion is legal with exceptions in two provinces, and illegal in the other province. We cannot accept a resolution that would force us to legalize abortion nationwide.

[Bruke]

I suppose our Government must begin a campaign of civil disobedience until the resolution is repealed.

[Bruke]

Our nation takes a similar approach to same-sex marriage, civil unions are recognized in two of our three provinces.

[Tzorsland]

Almost, but, combined, do they legalize abortion for any reason? or only certain reasons, like rape or danger to the mother's health/life?

Reproductive freedoms does. On abortion only requires a limited subset which nations and later WA law can expand (which Reproductive Freedoms did).

[Bruke]

So,abortion is required to be legalized in all circumstances?

[Separatist Peoples]

So,abortion is required to be legalized in all circumstances?

Yes.

[Bruke]

This is very troubling news. And it was "On Reproductive Freedoms" that did this, not "On Abortion"? I see.

[Tinfect]

This is very troubling news. And it was "On Reproductive Freedoms" that did this, not "On Abortion"? I see.

For the love of whichever god(s) you believe in, please do not try to repeal it. It has been attempted countless times by experienced and new authors, on every conceivable grounds, and literally none of them have been remotely successful.

[Bruke]

The Government is seriously considering it. Otherwise, we'll have years and years of legal challenges clogging up our courts.

[Separatist Peoples]

The Government is seriously considering it. Otherwise, we'll have years and years of legal challenges clogging up our courts.

Cool. Make a thread. This isn't the place for this discussion, because this is an OOC thread.

[Tinfect]

The Government is seriously considering it. Otherwise, we'll have years and years of legal challenges clogging up our courts.

Great, have your IC reasons, but please do not waste all of our time with another abortion clusterfuck. We already have one brewing as it is.

[Bruke]

Understood.

[North Eastern New England]

Thank you all,

this has been confusing me for at least a week

[Shwe Tu Colony]

So are we expected to flip through & read all of the not repealed WA legislation so then we can abide by them when we say anything, in the event that the thing we say happens to conflict with a WA resolution published years prior? Also, when one joins or leaves the World Assembly, are there massive stat changes due to prior resolutions or no?

[Separatist Peoples]

So are we expected to flip through & read all of the not repealed WA legislation so then we can abide by them when we say anything, in the event that the thing we say happens to conflict with a WA resolution published years prior? Also, when one joins or leaves the World Assembly, are there massive stat changes due to prior resolutions or no?

Yes and no, in that order.

[Sierra Lyricalia]

So are we expected to flip through & read all of the not repealed WA legislation so then we can abide by them when we say anything, in the event that the thing we say happens to conflict with a WA resolution published years prior? Also, when one joins or leaves the World Assembly, are there massive stat changes due to prior resolutions or no?

Yes and no, in that order.

To be fair, lurking a while is a good way to avoid having to read that whole lengthy thread. If you do propose something that's already been addressed, people will let you know in pretty short order. Don't propose anything before looking to see what's on the books, to be sure, but "when we say anything" is a standard above and beyond what anyone can or should expect.

[Western The Eas Armyistan]

What regions are involved in the GA forum? (I know about the General Assembly tag, but tags or lack thereof don't always truly reflect a region.) I know that Catholic, IDU, and Forest have several notable GA members in their regions, but are there any other such regions with members that participate here?