OOC: It's so late that the sun has come up, so I'm too tired for IC. Some comments.
Stellonia wrote:RECOGNIZING that birth control can reduce the rate of abortion without diminishing or restricting individuals’ ability to obtain an abortion, and
Are you still trying to sabotage this while pretending you're totally pro-birth control? Leave any mention of abortion out of this.
BELIEVING that the right to use birth control enables individuals and families to exercise greater control over their lives, while simultaneously
UNDERSTANDING that some citizens and governments of member states find birth control to be objectionable, but nevertheless
HOLDING that the improvements provided by the legality and availability of birth control outweigh these objections,
These make very little sense together. The understanding clause should be rewritten, because you're basically saying "I know what your beliefs are, but fuck your beliefs, this is now gonna be the law". Also, "greater control over their lives" sounds... weird. I mean, it's technically true, but it again reads as if you were really not trying to pass this, but were just pretending to. Family planning is not all about "control". It's a proven way to prevent poverty (having more children than you can afford to provide good lives for), to provide planned children with better living conditions and more attention paid to them by their parents (imagine being a middle child in a brood of 17 , versus one in a series of siblings numbering only three) which usually means the child getting help and emotional support necessary for normal development. And so forth. If you're really serious about this, research your subject better.
DEFINES birth control, for the sole purpose of interpreting and enforcing this resolution, as "a method, device, or procedure that is generally used for the primary purpose of intentionally reducing or eliminating the likelihood that a sexual act results in conception";
This still classifies abstinence as birth control, so a nation that didn't want to bother with this, could claim compliance simply by allowing people to choose to not have sex.
REQUIRES member states to
legally permit the development, research, production, and distribution of birth control under their jurisdiction,
You can drop the "legally", because if you require member states to permit something, then it is legal to do that something, because not permitting it would mean breaking the WA law. Also, given these first three subclauses have all the "legally permit" as starter, consider list in a list, or two separate requires clauses? Repetition tells you your form needs improving.
legally permit the access and use of temporary forms of birth control by individuals under their jurisdiction,
legally permit the access and use of permanent and potentially irrevocable forms of birth control by individuals of legal majority under their jurisdiction,
Why is there an age limit?
hold pharmaceutical drugs used as birth control to the same legal and regulatory standards as other pharmaceutical drugs, and
hold procedures used as birth control to the same legal and regulatory standards as other procedures;
These are rife for abuse as is, by nations not very willing to permit birth control. Taken together with the "requires ... permit ... access and use", it's also dangerously close to internal contradiction. Adding "of similar nature" or something like that to the end of each might be in order. I mean, birth control drugs are usually hormonal (local or systemic), so slamming them with stricter law than other hormones (say, for example, the side-effects that do not have to do with reproduction), would be in accordance with this, but totally against the spirit. And vasectomy is usually done under local anesthesia and not necessarily in a fully kitted operation room, but a nation might mandate that it must be done under general anesthesia and in the nation's only hospital accredited to do urological surgeries, or whatever, which would make it horribly difficult to get one, and also dangerous (because general anesthesia is always dangerous).
Do you see what I mean?
PROHIBITS member states from
compelling individuals to either use or abstain from using birth control,
Given that condoms definitely count for this, requiring someone to use a condom when they still have the possibility to pass on a seriously deadly disease (RL example, ebola or HIV), is definitely something nations should be allowed to require people to do.
imposing laws or regulations that have the effect of preventing individuals under their jurisdiction from accessing and using birth control, and
Again skirting with internal contradiction, given the previous clauses. And even then you might want to think of a wording that allows nations to prevent an individual from accessing a given form of birth control, just not all of them. Your II.C. allows nations to restrict permanent birth control methods to adults. Yet this clause seems to prohibit nations from doing so. Certainly teens should be allowed condoms and if doctor okays it, hormonal methods too, but if your intent is allowing nations to withhold them vasectomies or tubal litigations before they've turned adults, then this one needs some changing, since "regulation ... preventing ... from accessing and using birth control" is very much what an age limit on a vasectomy is.
prohibiting speech and activism on the basis that such speech or activism promotes or relates to birth control;
Have you checked the free speech resolution? It allows some restrictions. You can't give a blanket ban on any restrictions, without likely contradicting that one. Also "activism that relates to birth control" also equals "stabbing condom packages with needles and then passing them on as freebies", so be very careful with this one.
ENCOURAGES member states to
Ensure that all individuals under their jurisdiction can easily access and afford birth control,
Again, all forms of it or any that works?
incorporate education regarding birth control into their educational curricula, and
Isn't there a resolution that already does this?
address any stigma against birth control that may exist among their citizens;
Address =/= do something to eliminate it. This, again, sounds like you're not
really serious about this and just pretend that you are.
REQUIRES the World Health Authority to
invest resources into the further development and research of birth control,
Why? Why not make this the nations' task? Remember that all committees draw their money from the whole of the WA - I don't entirely see a reason for why non-human nations should fork over money for the development of human birth control methods, or vice versa.
ensure that all individuals under the jurisdiction of member states can easily access and afford birth control,
So are the nations doing it or the WA? And how would WHA even do that? By, again, forking over money? So let's say Araraukar decides to save on its health budget costs and stops providing all this on its own. The WHA steps in and does it and pays for it, drawing from all the WA nations (Araraukar included, but its part of the pot would diminish by a great deal), and thus Araraukar is compliant with the earlier requirement, since the WHA is ensuring that happens, it means Araraukar is covered. Budget savings, wheee! Now multiply the problem with 20k WA nations.
ensure that all individuals under the jurisdiction of member states can easily access education regarding effective use of birth control, and
Again, 1. already done by an existing resolution and 2. why tell the nations to do this at all if the WA is going to do it? Like seriously, these both work fine as mandates to the nation, leave the WHA out of them.
educate against any stigma against birth control that may exist within member states;
WHA is not an educational committee. Make the nations do this, don't involve the committee.
PERMITS the World Health Authority to exercise measures that it reasonably deems necessary to accomplish these purposes; and
Blanket permissions to do whatever they want, to committees, are considered overreach. If you have no bloody idea how this would work, don't put it in. If you do, put in the details. In detail.
PROHIBITS member states from obstructing any of the actions performed by the World Health Authority in accordance with this resolution.
Again, why you need the committee at all? Make the nations do all of it, so you don't need to worry about them obstructing a committee. And besides, if someone's going to go for blatant noncompliance, they're not going to listen no matter how many clauses of "you must do this" you put in.
Overall, good idea, slightly badly executed, author needs to do more research on the subject.