ON A ROMANIAN ATTEMPT TO LEGISLATE ON MEDICALLY ASSISTED HUMAN REPRODUCTION

The paper presents and briefly analyses some of the provisions of a Romanian legislative proposal which arrived at the Presidency for ratification twice, in slightly different forms, and which was rejected twice: the first time at the Presidency in October 2004, and the second at the Constitutional...

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Main Author: Cutas, Daniela E. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2008
In: Bioethics
Year: 2008, Volume: 22, Issue: 1, Pages: 56-63
Further subjects:B single parenthood
B Moral Status
B right to reproduce
B medically assisted reproduction
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Summary:The paper presents and briefly analyses some of the provisions of a Romanian legislative proposal which arrived at the Presidency for ratification twice, in slightly different forms, and which was rejected twice: the first time at the Presidency in October 2004, and the second at the Constitutional Court in July 2005. The proposal was finally dropped in February 2006. My intention here is to point to some of the most problematic deficiencies of the legislative document in the hope that this may assist with future debates and regulations on assisted reproduction either in Romania or elsewhere. I have isolated the features to be discussed under two headings: (1) whose are the rights to reproduce, that the document claimed to ‘acknowledge, regulate and guarantee’ and (2) what is the status of the embryo, the child and the surrogate mother?
ISSN:1467-8519
Contains:Enthalten in: Bioethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2007.00586.x