Social Policy

Social Policy White Paper

The Second Republic Project advances proposals for  fundamental change in Social Policy in accordance with the principles found in its Five Pillars and the Mission Statement. This initial overview on Social Policy does not pretend to be comprehensive in any sense. The writers who contribute to this paper anticipate what they believe will be fundamental changes in philosophy and practice when compared to the present day socialist democracies.
When the Second Republic Project in each country debates an ratifies a detailed initiative on each issue, experienced administrators will draft the implementation plan.

Right to Life

The Second Republic Project recognizes the Right to Life for all human beings in their own right, whether in the womb or as natural persons. The pregnant mother carrying a child is the custodian of a life. The foetus who at conception is the innocent result of the biological union between a man and a woman is recognized as a human being, for even at conception, he or she has all the attributes and characteristics of the human species.

In any nation where the Second Republic Project has significant electoral support, the members would debate and decide the implementation of this policy online well before the party came to power publicly. The members comprise every Citizen of a country without exception that agrees to the principles which are embodied in the Five Pillars , Personal Sovereignty and the Mission Statement.

The Issue
The historical debate springs from the desire of one side of the political spectrum to legislate that it is right and just for society to permit abortion, and to pay for it out of tax coffers. Unfortunately, that position makes every citizen share the responsibility for state funded abortion, which is reprehensible to those who believe the unborn child has the right to life. Others on the other side of the debate would subjugate a woman’s body, stating that the woman must bear the child whatever the cost. The Second Republic Project believes there is un-staked middle ground.

Deceptively, when present governments fund abortion, or make abortion illegal, they are claiming jurisdiction over the woman’s body. In so doing they are subtley conditioning  the public to accept their judgment  on what shall become of the child’s life after he is born. Therefore, in the larger picture, what is legalized regarding life in the womb is the foundation stone for the extension of government jurisdiction over the lives of all citizens beginning at  conception.

Father, mother and unborn baby are living persons that have unalienable rights that do not come from the State. Because the life of the woman and the unborn child are physically intertwined, the mother is without doubt ……the physical custodian of the life within her. By virtue of a natural process, a Creator /Designer, higher than the state, is the root cause in the creation of the foetus. Therefore it follows that the responsibility to bring the foetus to birth is that of the Custodian (or mother) to the Creator, whoever she conceives him or her to be. The state therefore, cannot compel a woman to do anything beyond her natural inclination to either care for, or to discard an unborn child, without compromising her unalienable rights. The Second Republic Project therefore admits the existence of the conundrum, recognizing life in the womb, and at the same time recognizing the unalienable rights of the mother to discard the life within her even if she is ignorant of, or unwilling to accept the custodial view of her responsibility for the baby’s life.

A nation, where the Second Republic Project came to power would therefore do everything possible to change the social climate by recognizing life at conception, educating life at conception, while recognizing the indivisible custodial relationship between the mother and her unborn child.

Note what positives that are sanctioned:

1- Funding and educational support for Adoption clinics;
2- Funding support for the education and promotion of chastity among youth;
3- Funding support for the education and promotion of heterosexual marriage as the only working biological model capable of producing future citizens;
4- Supplemental family support for Mothers unsupported by a marriage relationship;
5- Medical support where the life of the mother is threatened by the pregnancy;
6- Legislative support for time honored Values (Sovereignty Principles) and the Natural Order in Human relationships.

All of the above will be the subject of a detailed implementation paper written by persons of administrative experience. The Implementation Paper would be the starting point for legislative debate.
Submitted  by Philip Jarman  1 July  2011

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