PNC 09/13/2026

PNC Meeting Minutes: September 13th, 2026

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Pirate National Committee — All national committees

The September 13th 2026 PNC Meeting was one of the weekly meetings of the Pirate National Committee (PNC).

Agenda

Discussion

Old Business

Approval of Minutes

PNC 08/30/2026

PR Director Election

6 people were nominated, 3 accepted nominations

• Daniel Twedt
• Elliot Smith
• Seth Prome

All Hands for a Free Future Discussion

• Further discussion on potential withdrawal from the coalition with the Transhumanist party.

Conference Location Discussion

This meeting was set as the final date to select a conference location for 2027.

New Business

Bodily Autonomy Plank

At the September 1st platform meeting the following was approved to be sent to the PNC for consideration as a new platform plank.

We believe that bodily autonomy should be universally protected with federal legislation or constitutional amendment rather than being protected by unstable court decisions or state governments. Everyone has the right to make decisions about their body without unjustified government interference. Limited evidence based public health regulations are appropriate to insure herd immunity, but the government must not use them to deny bodily autonomy.


Abortion is critical healthcare. Further restrictions on abortion have caused severe harms, when already the United States has the highest maternal mortality in the developed world. We will enact federal legislation protecting the right to an abortion. We will repeal the Hyde Amendment and guarantee abortion access with interstate-travel protections and legal protections for healthcare providers. To further enshrine abortion access, and close the door for future meddling, the Comstock Act should be repealed. We will ensure affordable access to contraception, IVF, and we will prohibit forced or coerced sterilization.

We will pass legislation affirming Lawrence v. Texas & Martin v. Ziherl and the right of consenting adults to engage in private sexual activity. We will ban conversion therapy federally, as it's an abhorrent archaic practice with no place in a free society.

We will decriminalize consensual adult sex work, while maintaining strong laws against trafficking, exploitation, violence, coercion and abuse of minors. Criminalization pushes sex workers away from healthcare and labor protections and drastically increases the rate of abuse.
We will protect access to gender affirming care, including puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgery. Morphological freedom is a critical aspect of bodily autonomy. We will guarantee an informed consent model nationally for those seeking gender affirming care. We will remove unnecessary barriers to care and deschedule testosterone. Through federal legislation, we will make legal gender based on a self-identification system, and recognize a third gender. The cost to change one’s legal name should be affordable. We will ban elective surgeries on intersex infants without an immediate medical concern.

Minutes

Attending State Representatives

• State - Name, USPP Role

Absent States

• State

Non Voting

• Name - 2LetterState, USPP Role