The Czech legislation on surrogacy and its comparison with foreign standards

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/00216208:11230/24:10484027

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The Czech legislation on surrogacy and its comparison with foreign standards

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

The Czech legislation on surrogacy and its comparison with foreign standards

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50501 - Law

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Kontakt

ISSN

1212-4117

e-ISSN

1804-7122

Svazek periodika

26

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

9

Strana od-do

300-308

Kód UT WoS článku

001325930500006

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85206836393