The Czech legislation on surrogacy and its comparison with foreign standards
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11110%2F24%3A10484027" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11110/24:10484027 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11230/24:10484027
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=7pn0Q_cvAR" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=7pn0Q_cvAR</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.32725/kont.2024.040" target="_blank" >10.32725/kont.2024.040</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Czech legislation on surrogacy and its comparison with foreign standards
Original language description
Members of the Czech Parliament submitted the Amendment to the Civil Code and the Criminal Code that considers surrogacy as a specific form of human trafficking addressing the prohibited commercialization of the human body. The amendment aims to protect women, whose social status is often exploited, and children, who are reduced to commodities. The proposed changes seek to prevent the abuse of international surrogacy and reproductive tourism and, as a result, prohibit surrogacy even in an altruistic form between close relatives. Current Czech legislation tolerates surrogacy. Many social and ethical questions associated with this phenomenon deserve a society-wide discussion. Foreign legislation oscillates from clearly regulated conditions for surrogacy, through regulations that tolerate surrogacy without further regulation, to the prohibition of this specific phenomenon. This paper discusses the legislative regulation of surrogate motherhood in the Czech Republic (CR), as it compares with foreign regulation, and focuses on parameters used to compare different legal systems. Detailed national legislation, but especially uniform international rules can contribute to the protection from potential abuse caused by surrogacy. While altruistic surrogacy can be morally acceptable, commercial surrogacy, especially in an international context, can lead to the aforementioned abuses.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50501 - Law
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Kontakt
ISSN
1212-4117
e-ISSN
1804-7122
Volume of the periodical
26
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
300-308
UT code for WoS article
001325930500006
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85206836393