[GA - DRAFT] Repeal: "Assisted Suicide Act"

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Repeal: "Assisted Suicide Act"
Category: Repeal | GA #285
Proposed by: Imperium Anglorum | Onsite Topic
Replacement: Access to Life-Ending Services​

This august World Assembly finds as follows:
  1. People suffering from a chronic, insurable, and painful condition should have the right to end their own lives voluntarily in a painless manner. Nations should respect an individual's choice in this manner, insofar as that choice does not harm others directly.

  2. GA 285 'Assisted Suicide Act' violates this duty by allowing some member nations to prohibit within their jurisdictions 'assisted suicide and euthanasia', forcing people to suffer, and in consequence of regulatory decisions, male member nations complicit in the suffering that those who seek euthanasia desire to avoid.

  3. While GA 285 'Assisted Suicide Act' allows people to travel to different jurisdictions, this creates a de facto prohibition on assisted suicide for people who lack funds needed for travel. As most people who seek euthanasia are also suffering from severe medical conditions that require specialised care, GA 285's travel rights also are far more restrictive than they appear initially: chartering a private air ambulance flight, transporting all the equipment necessary for the patient, and arrangement of medical services in a foreign nation without accepted insurance are all expensive transactions beyond the reach of, say, a terminal pensioner on a fixed income.

  4. It is more than likely that GA 285's travel provisions cannot be exercised, due to massive financial barriers, except by those who are extremely wealthy. The Assembly has in the past acted to strike down domestic prohibitions designed to make certain procedures exorbitantly expensive or available only to those able to travel to foreign jurisdictions. It furthermore has taken decisive action to enable access to regionally-inaccessible medical procedures.

  5. Only by passage of such enabling legislation could the Assembly's duty to terminal patients who voluntarily seek euthanasia be fulfilled in the face of local particularists complicit in prolonging suffering. This is no different from previous resolutions striking down policies meant to make certain procedures unaffordable and unaccessible to most people. The Assembly hopes that such enabling legislation be enacted forthwith.
Now, therefore, the World Assembly repeals GA 285 'Assisted Suicide Act'.
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Please give your comments on this draft below. We are not voting on whether to support this at this time and a new, unique thread will be created when we do.
 
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I am against the use of the language "assisted suicide" in general - there is a reason Oregon and Washington State both adopted the language of "death with dignity". I am in favour of the right to "death with dignity" so I can go on for hour on this.
 
simone_republic:
I am against the use of the language "assisted suicide" in general - there is a reason Oregon and Washington State both adopted the language of "death with dignity". I am in favour of the right to "death with dignity" so I can go on for hour on this.
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No getting around it here, it is literally in the title. I believe Apato's replacement doesn't use it though.
 
Boston Castle:
No getting around it here, it is literally in the title. I believe Apato's replacement doesn't use it though.
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Well, at least it's a repeal. I actually am on the forum thread for this, since I am actually quite strongly passionate about this issue.
 
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