The Duke of Magecastle, Jeramy Vliet, had just finished leading The Ice States' for now successful negotiations with The Golden Throne to secure aid for the crisis The Ice States is facing at the hands of various crausader nations.
When the Ice diplomats left the negotiation room, however, he still had one more duty to do that day: present the mission's latest project to the international scene. He was tired, but could not let down the nation. So he crossed sovereignties to enter the A5 building at Magecastle, which was the World Assembly Mission room. He grabbed the copy of the draft, and put it into the photocopying machine. When a copy came out of the machine, he sighed, and entered the World Assembly portal. The world had blackened around him, until he appeared at the World Assembly Headquarters.
He went up to the Drafting space in the WA Headquarters, and placed the photocopy of the draft on an empty drafting desk _
The World Assembly,
Reaffirming its support for equality for minorities from discrimination, and recognising the noble aims of the resolution to promote this aim in the scope of blood donation -- in particular lifting discriminatory restrictions on donation of blood by minority groups,
Noting, however, the several flaws present in the resolution necessitating its repeal,
Finds as follows _
- Its criminalisation of knowing donation of blood carrying a disease -- which makes no exception for donation for medical research -- dramatically harms the quality of world medical research, as it fails to recognise that blood carrying a disease may very well be useful for medical research -- especially that on the disease carried by that blood -- even if the blood would be unusable for administration to a patient.
- Further, the effects of the resolutions "Biomedical Donation Omnibus Act" and "Biomedical Donor Rights" each supersede nearly all of the Blood Donation Safety and Equality Act's other protections, rendering the resolution obsolete and redundant.
- Even without the Biomedical Donation Omnibus Act, the resolution's attempts to stop discrimination in blood donation are still inadequate, as the resolution does not stop member nations from immediately discarding donated blood due to the donor's belonging to a minority group, as long as blood donation clinics do not turn away prospective donors due to their belonging to that minority group. Thus, it does not protect any equality rights in blood donation.
For these reasons, be the "Blood Donation Safety and Equality Act" repealed.
He sat down at the desk. "Discuss. And I assure you, we will only submit this once the replacement resolution has passed too." he says, smirking annoyingly.
Ooc: Does this happen in real life? Yes -- for example, in Canada donating blood that has or is likely to have malaria or vCJD for research is perfectly legal; nb restrictions on donating HIV and Hepatitis blood for research are for the donor's health, rather than risk of transmission; the Stanford Blood Center has similar exceptions allowing those at risk of blood-borne diseases that otherwise would make one ineligible to donate blood for administration to donate for research; see also this paper on the subject. Not only is applying the same safety standard for research and administration donations ridiculous, but establishing criminal penalties for donation for research is even more absurd.