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Reproductive Rights: Legal Aspects of the Right to Sterilisation

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  • Hajrija Mujović-Zornić

    (Center for Legal Research, Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade (Serbia))

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In this paper the author discusses the nature and importance of the right to reproduce, in particular the right to sterilisation. In the time past sterilization has been practiced only as a measure of penal policy or the prevention of mental health diseases. Today, mostly we can speak about the right to sterilization (especially reversible sterilization). The patient have a free choice to decide any method of contraception and that could be a voluntary sterilization (also called human, contraceptive, non-therapeutical in French law, and obliging in German law). Various legal questions about this right can be raised, in accordance of state of reproductive rights (how they are regulated by the law) and the protection of reproductive rights (especially the right of pregnant woman as a patient). Yugoslav law not yet has a complete regulation and adequate solutions in this area, except the abortion law. The primary gynecology care has contraceptive counseling, but concrete measures and education are insufficient. It cannot begin to give consistent answers to all of these questions without a coherent conception of the right to reproduce, which is the primary duty of legal experts.

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  • Hajrija Mujović-Zornić, 2001. "Reproductive Rights: Legal Aspects of the Right to Sterilisation," Stanovnistvo, Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia, vol. 39(1-4), pages 119-130, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:eto:stanov:v:39:y:2001:i:1-4:id:205
    DOI: 10.2298/STNV0104119M
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