KOMPARATIVNI PRIKAZ PRAVA NA PRIZIV SAVJESTI, S NAGLASKOM NA PRIZIV SAVJESTI U REPRODUKTIVNOJ MEDICINI

Abstract

In this paper, the authors discusses a comparative overview of the legal frameworks governing the appeal of conscience, with emphasis on the reproductive medicine first of the Republic of Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and after that of the Spain, Norway, Sweden, Italy and France. In the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1978, which parts were Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Slovenia and Croatia, the Law on Health Measures for Exercising the Right to Free Decision-Making on the Birth of Children entered into force, which is still in force in the Republic of Croatia. After the break-up of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, some states that were part of it regulated the right to conscience by the Constitution and some only by the laws in the field of health and health care. We identified a number of problems through the analysis. In the paper, the topic is analyzed in detail. For example, in the Republic of Croatia, there is no uniform and standardized procedure for refusing to perform certain services due to the appeal of conscience, there is no systematic collection of data on health personnel with the appeal of conscience and about the impact of the appeal of conscience on the quality of health care.