DRAFT OF THE CROATIAN ACT ON MEDICALLY ASSISTED PROCREATION – BALANCING PROCREATIVE RIGHTS
DRAFT OF THE CROATIAN ACT ON MEDICALLY ASSISTED PROCREATION – BALANCING PROCREATIVE RIGHTS

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses the medical-legal regulation of medically assisted procreation de lege lata and de lege ferenda, as well as the basic family-law consequences. The Republic of Croatia is a country-signatory of international conventions regulating procreative rights. Therefore it is obliged to act in accordance with the accepted international conventions. The Draft of the Croatian Act on Medically Assisted Procreation is the reflection of an attempt to balance the individual’s right to decide freely on childbirth and the child’s right to live in a family with both parents and be informed of its origin. The medical-legal regulation, taking into consideration the accepted standards of human rights, should be based on the following principles: the ultima ratio principle, the principle of the protection of participants in the procedure, the principle of state control and the principle of protection of the child’s welfare.

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