Względy społeczne jako przyczyna legalnego zabiegu terminacji ciąży – rozważania prawnoporównawcze
Social considerations as a reason for legal termination of pregnancy – comparative legal research

Summary/Abstract: Abortion law is continually a controversial topic – in legal and social terms. Domestic laws provide various grounds for legal termination of pregnancy, which – usually – are divided into medical, criminological, eugenic and social. The subject of this paper is social reasons as a prerequisite of legal termination of pregnancy. This study aimed to prove that this premise is diversified. The research hypothesis assumed in this study was formulated as follows: The social prerequisite of abortion may – depending on the legal system – have a narrower or wider scope and is not equivalent to the termination of pregnancy “on demand”. To verify the research hypothesis, a comparative research method was used. The main conclusion of this paper is that the social reason for termination of pregnancy depends on the legal system and may have a narrower or wider scope and is not equivalent to the termination of pregnancy “on request”.

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