Review article
DRAFT OF THE CROATIAN ACT ON MEDICALLY ASSISTED PROCREATION – BALANCING PROCREATIVE RIGHTS
Aleksandra KORAĆ
Abstract
The paper analyses the medical-legal regulation of medically
assisted procreation de lege lata and de lege ferenda, as well
as the basic family-law consequences. The Republic of Croatia
is a country-signatory of international conventions regulating
procreative rights. Therefore it is obliged to act in accordance
with the accepted international conventions. The Draft of the
Croatian Act on Medically Assisted Procreation is the reflection
of an attempt to balance the individual’s right to decide freely
on childbirth and the child’s right to live in a family with both
parents and be informed of its origin. The medical-legal
regulation, taking into consideration the accepted standards of
human rights, should be based on the following principles: the
ultima ratio principle, the principle of the protection of
participants in the procedure, the principle of state control and
the principle of protection of the child’s welfare.
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Hrčak ID:
20332
URI
Publication date:
30.6.1999.
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