Whereas some rabidly anti-choice nations lack qualified medical professionals who are willing to perform abortions, meaning that the ability to access them is non-existent without funds needed for foreign travel, therefore denying constructively abortion rights merely because of income and birth location:
And whereas discrimination in state policy or administration of tax on abortion recipients and providers is unfair and grossly unjust:
Be it enacted by this august World Assembly as follows:
- Definitions. In this resolution,
- abortion means a medical procedure to terminate a pregnancy deliberately,
- IAO means Independent Adjudicative Office,
- recipient bona fide means a natural person demonstrating a bona fide desire for a commodity or service,
- resolution means General Assembly resolution,
- member means member nation, and
- tax includes solidarity contributions and other compulsory payments made to the state.
- Funding. Members must pay for or provide directly abortions, abortifacients, and contraceptives requested by any recipient bona fide within their jurisdiction. Members must also provide a means to access such services and commodities speedily and free at the point of service or provision.
- Non-discrimination. No members may:
- discriminate against a recipient or provider of abortion or contraceptives in collection of tax,
- discriminate against abortion providers on account of occupation,
- prosecute any person for receiving or providing: section 7 compliant abortions, contraceptives, or truthful medical advice or education thereon, or
- prohibit section 7 compliant contraceptives or abortifacients or levy discriminatory tariffs or tax against them.
- Clinics. There shall be established regularly accessible clinics subsidised by WA Choice Plus. WA Choice Plus shall be funded with assessments by the GAO from nations in which there does not exist—in the view of the IAO—adequate access to abortion. The clinics shall offer free, quick, easy, and safe abortions to any recipient bona fide. All members shall contribute, proportional to expenses incurred within their jurisdiction at such clinics, to WA Choice Plus for upkeep and maintenance of such clinics.
- Members must arrange fully subsidised travel, for any recipient bona fide and one person of their choice, to receive care offered by such a clinic if one is not speedily accessible. No limitation, except to prohibit travel to nations in which there is an on-going armed conflict, may be placed by a member on a person's ability to travel to a clinic unless permitted by resolution.
- Clinics must provide free contraceptives and free childcare to any address serviceable by post within a member as well as free care and counselling for expectant parents. It may also provide other services assigned to it by resolution.
- Clinic lease terms. Any member that so wishes may request the construction and operation of such clinics if it can be shown to the IAO that existing access is inadequate. The clinics will be built on land donated by members where the member doing so grants to the clinic a ten-year renewable lease in which no (a) direct tax or (b) indirect tax in excess of one per cent may be collected, along with the condition that upon disestablishment the clinic, the assignee or seizer must remit to the GAO the fair market value of the improvements to that land.
- Sex-selective abortions. Notwithstanding any other provision of this resolution and unless otherwise indicated by resolution, a member may restrict access to or section 2 funding for an abortion if that member can show that a sex-selective basis clearly impels its request.
- Health and safety. The World Health Authority (WHA) must issue regulations to ensure abortions, abortifacients, and contraceptives available to the general public are safe and effective for the end-user and those with which they may be in close contact. Such regulations overrule those made by members unless demonstrable to the IAO the insufficiency of those WHA regulations in fulfilling the mandate of this section.
- Interpretation. In this resolution: older resolutions overrule conflicting provisions of this resolution; provisions of this resolution found to contradict previous resolution do not render unenforceable severable provisions of this resolution; singular words include the plural unless otherwise indicated; section and list headings have no effect.
