Role of the State A02

• Agree: It does protect common good
• MP Fiona Bruce: '"We are here to protect the most vulnerable in society, not to legislate to kill them."'
• Opposition to the Assisted Dying Bill by the House of Commons in 2015


  Protects the common good, lacking safeguards for the vulnerable
• Creation of the NHS by the British Government


  Helps protect the common good, providing universal access to healthcare regardless of wealth
• NHS released by Minister of Health Aneurin Bevan with 3 principles: meet needs of everyone, free at point of delivery, based on clinical need not ability to pay


  July 5 1948
• Tobacco & Vapes Bill 2024


  Aims to create a "smoke free generation" by reducing the appeal and availability of vapes to young people, showing well being of citizens at the heart of their work
• Anyone born past 2012 never allowed to purchase vapes
• Germany making moves toward reproductive freedom of women, abortion legalised within first 12 weeks in April 2020
• Predominantly Catholic Spain remove state funding for Planned Parenthood operating in Spain, National Court permanently revoked Family Planning Federation's status as a public group
• Disagree: doesn't protect liberty/ promote common good
• Swiss gov found guilty for not doing enough to combat climate change

  Age meant higher risk of dying during heatwave, Swiss= legal duty to take greater action
• Within 14 months of Philippines war on drug campaign by President Duterte, 3,500 people have been killed
• RCC Diocese of Cubao's 44 churches ring bells for 5 minutes to demand justice for unlawful killings
• Unlawful killings remove liberty and result in a significant increase in deaths, negatively impacting the common good
• Communist Party in China killing prisoners of conscience to feed transplant industry as discovered by US House of Reps
• Organs given not to most deserving recipients but to the highest bidders, failure of state to recognise and uphold personal liberties and autonomy of prisoners
• USA Tax Reform Dec 2017 revealed that state not working toward the common good of all its citizens but rather increasing the long term tax reductions of the already rich business owners in America
• Not working for common good as it is only increasing the pay gap between the rich and poor
• Segregation Laws in US and SA, Jim Crow laws enforced racial segregation in Southern United States, mandated racial segregation in all public facilities beginning in 1896 with a "separate but equal status" for African Americans
• State at the time failed to work for the common good and didn't protect personal rights of African Americans in the states