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Protection of Biomedical Research; Voting ends 4th March
Topic Started: Feb 27 2018, 04:43:18 PM (161 Views)
Bai Lung
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Recognizing the vast potential of biomedical research to improve and save the lives of the citizens of Member-States,

Applauding the great strides already made in the field by many Member-States,

Desiring to establish a universal scientific standard so as to facilitate international cooperation and advancement,

Appalled by the complete lack of moral fiber demonstrated by organizations that oppose life-saving research,

And condemning the placement of unjust and illegitimate restrictions on such research,

The World Assembly hereby;

Defines, for the purposes of this resolution:

1. Biomedical Research as the fields of research investigating the causes of disease, disease prevention, treatment, and the mitigation or elimination of medical conditions including, but not limited to: Cancer, Paraplegia, and Motor Neuron Diseases,

Mandates:

1. That Member-States determine the sapience of any species for which the status is as-yet indeterminate or unknown prior to allowing, or engaging in biomedical experimentation on said species,

2. That Member-States consider any temporarily or permanently incapacitated member of a species known to be sapient, to be themselves Sapient, regardless of disability or condition,

3. That any and all research efforts within Member-States, barring those protected for reasons of security, disclose any and all conflicts of interest, including, but not limited to, origin and amount of funding, methodological biases, and personal biases in research personnel,

4. That Member-States place no restrictions on biomedical research beyond those that are necessary to ensure that research efforts meet ethical and scientific standards,

5. That Member-States rescind any and all biomedical research ethics standards and regulations that do not serve specifically to minimize or eliminate direct or indirect harm to life provably sentient or sapient at the time of research, and,

Clarifies, to avoid certain deliberate misinterpretations,

That the above provisions are subject to extant legislation,

That nothing in this legislation prevents Member-States for ensuring proper respect for the deceased,

That nothing in this legislation prevents Member-States from enforcing Environmental protections,

And reminds Member-States that any and all determinations of sapience or sentience are subject to extant World Assembly legislation and scientific procedure.
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After a preliminary review, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will be advising a vote against this particular resolution. It seems the author of GAR #420 really, really wants his resolution in effect seeing as how he's pretty much copy-pasted the same content.

I'd like to focus in on two points in particular:

1) These lines are nothing short of a minute tantrums at having had their previous and abysmal attempt at protecting biomedical research repealed:
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"Appalled by the complete lack of moral fiber demonstrated by organizations that oppose life-saving research"
"Clarifies, to avoid certain deliberate misinterpretations"

2) This line still exists within this supposed "revision", one of the guiding factors regarding why TEP voted against GAR #420:
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"That Member-States place no restrictions on biomedical research beyond those that are necessary to ensure that research efforts meet ethical and scientific standards"

I'll work to comb through this once more and compare it more closely with GAR #420 in order to provide more evidence, but this is all I've collected for now. Let's not engage the World Assembly in a circular pattern of passing a resolution only to repeal it to pass the damn near exact same legislation.[edit_reason]Formatting; wording[/edit_reason]
Edited by Drachen, Feb 27 2018, 05:12:19 PM.
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As always, Kyrloth stands in favour of the removal of any obstacles to scientific progress, no matter the cost, or the manner in which said removal comes about, and will be voting FOR.

However, the fact that this proposal is shockingly similar to GA420, only with some extra clarifications, shows bad form, and as such, I would advise that The East Pacific delegation votes AGAINST, in the hopes that a different set of legislation, accomplishing the same or similar goals in a better manner, will be passed instead at a later date.
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Clause 5 of this resolution does not actually "protect" biomedical research in the manner desired by the author for the simple reason that almost anything can be characterized as a kind of "indirect harm" to sapient life.

For example, this resolution (or at least its previous iteration) exists for the primary purpose of requiring member states to permit embryonic stem cell research. Nonetheless, there are clear indirect harms to sapient life associated with permitting embryonic stem cell research that would permit Auralia to prohibit such research under this resolution:
  • Permitting the destruction of human embryos -- fellow members of the human species at an early stage of development -- for the purposes of biomedical research denies the sanctity of human life and the dignity of the human person. As the Catechism of the Catholic Church points out, "[w]hen the state does not place its power at the service of the rights of each citizen, and in particular of the more vulnerable, the very foundations of a state based on law are undermined". In other words, once we deny the rights of the weakest among us, the rights of all are put at risk.
  • There is also the simple fact that Auralia's largely Catholic population understandably experiences a great deal of emotional anguish at the thought of harmful and destructive biomedical experimentation on a certain class of human beings being made legal.

(These are, of course, controversial propositions which you may not agree with. The point is that they're rational and plausible and I think entirely compatible with the "indirect harm" standard applied by the resolution.)

It is interesting to note that clause 2 is not actually written with reference to clause 5. It therefore establishes general norms for sapience for the World Assembly -- all member states must "consider any temporarily or permanently incapacitated member of a species known to be sapient, to be themselves Sapient [sic]".

As a result, it is possible that clause 2 requires member states to prohibit embryonic stem cell research as a violation of Prevention of Child Abuse or similar resolutions, since an embryo is arguably a "temporarily...incapacitated member of a species known to be sapient". This depends on whether or not a being that lacks a capacity but will develop it (as opposed to initially having it and then losing it) can be considered "incapacitated". However, at least one definition of the term (which is simply "unable to act, respond, or the like") does include the former case.

In any event, we would support a vote against simply because the resolution is clearly motivated by a desire to compel member states to permit controversial biomedical research, even if it fails (perhaps spectacularly so) to accomplish that goal.
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More info here: https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=436962&sid=07c86526cc2717d97e6ee783ea283e7f

This resolution is now up for vote.

Bai Lung will vote FOR.
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Protection of Biomedical Research was passed 15,041 votes to 4,595.
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"They whine about discrimination. Do you know who is being discriminated against? The Hal'vonnist people of Dannistaan, the ones who created this nation... I am talking about the Dannistrian Hal'vonnist people of the North as well as the East...Communism is racial! A racial minority seized control in Bai Lung and in all her satellite states such as Kelssek, Dovakhan and the Free Pacific States, and many other countries I could name."

-Kelly Minn'ow-Jones, former leader of the Dannistrian National Party
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