SENATE BILL: Late-Term Abortion Restriction Act (On the President's Desk)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Amendment to be considered once Scott's is passed.

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[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

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Status: Senators, the above amendment is now at vote, please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Aye

If the funds were completely opt-outable, would you change your mind?

It is possible yet unlikely. I got to thinking a bit after a brief exchange with Sam awhile back and decided the federal government of Atlasia makes a habit of tackling some issues better left to the individual regions. That's not to imply I am about to go libertarian on ya'll, but I am going to start dragging my heels when I think this highest tier of government is not doing something imperative to fulfilling its core function of upholding the social rights of the people.

In this case, regulating late-term abortions is consistent with that mission of state. The funding in question, in contrast, has a more diffuse yet nonetheless significant cultural impact. Each region ought to generate strategies of their own, with those policies representing both the values and social mores of their respective peoples better than would a one-size-fits-all approach - in effect addressing the issue in a more decentralized, culturally sensitive manner.

Even if a region could opt out, its taxpayers would still have to fund this in the other regions.

If you have any ideas on how to approach that I would be happy to work with you. I just don't like seeing dollar amounts added to bills, with no implementation procedures, standards for receiving funds etc. We can't leave Scott's text in there as is, without adding some kind of procedures to implement it. I don't wnat to see this bill fail, either.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

2-5, which means we are stuck here till the 10th.

Come on people, this hasn't had a new vote on it since the 6th. Seven people voted in one day's time and the last three somehow manage to not in five.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Instead of doing nothing here, we should start planning are next move? What can we get six votes on here. So far we have been running circles around this bill on important but ancillary issues. Is their even six votes to ban late term abortion, with or without any other additions?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

No Mr. Bond, I expect you talk!


No, I won't stop! You can't shut me up, you can't turn me off.


A subverted Bond villain quote and a George Carlin reference played straight.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Maybe your side's "War on Women" crap has crossed into the game and made impossible for liberals to vote for any restrictions on abortion and remain in the clique.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

There was a War on Women here? I never noticed. I didn't realized we had women to wage war on. Which gets back to my point. This game is small and if you suppress the opposition so much they give up, you kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

Discussing the University bill earlier reminded me of something. There was a clause in that that stated "regions refusing to offer a location, wil lhave the money offered to other regions", or something like that. That bill had seven ayes, I wonder if any of them are amongst those making an issue of this "snooze you lose" clause on this amendment?  

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Vote on Amendment 51:12:

Aye (2): NC Yankee and Scott
Nay (5): Franzl, Hagrid, Marokai Blue, NVTowsend and Redalgo
Abstain (0):

Didn't Vote (3): Bacon King, Ben, and sbane

With time having expired, the amendment is defeated.

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[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Ah, there is no vote here.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Ah Hello, Marokai, people who voted nay on the previous amendment, give me some answers here.

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Status: Senators have 24 hours to object.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The amendment has passed.


Where are people ate here? (Nothing here is misspelled, just a coded warning of what might consider doing if too many people are still being impossible on this. ) Do we have six votes currently, or no?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

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How does this look, then? Senators? Mr. President?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Those words look quite familiar.

I support the amendment.

If we had more time, I would have given you a short time to write the text on your own, but we have been held up by this and other issues for over a month on this bill.

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[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The amendment has passed.


Is that it?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

People? I am not going to let this fail because no one spoke up when I asked.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I ask Unanimous Consent to waive the cloture requirement and proceed imediately to a final vote. Senators have 24 hours to object.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

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[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Seeing no objection, the bill is now at final vote. Senators, please vote Aye, Nay or abstain.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

AYE!

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Vote on Final Passage of the Late-Term Abortion Restriction Act:

Aye (6): Ben, Franzl, HagridoftheDeep, Marokai Blue, NC Yankee, and Redalgo
Nay (1): Averroës Nix
Abstain (0):

Didn't Vote (1): Sbane/Oakvale
Didn't Change Vote of predecessor (1): JulioMadrid

Vacant (2): Bacon King and NVTownsend - Simfan was four days after vote ended.

The bill has passed and has been presented to the President for executive action.