Abstract

A basic human right - the right to life, even today faces numerous questions when it comes to its scope. One of those questions is the issue of the right to abortion, which is the subject of numerous controversies among lawyers, philosophers, medical workers, theologists, as well as among citizens in the broadest sense. Debates that exist in various scientific disciplines indicate the complexity of these issues that needs to be legally regulated at the domestic and international level. For that reason, it is necessary to follow and study the judgments of international bodies that have been passed in connection with this issue. As the most developed system of Human Rights protection has been established within the European Convention on Human Rights, and at the same time the most relevant for our country, in this paper the author studies the current practice of the European Court of Human Rights related to the right to abortion. It is evident, from the case law presented in this paper that the Court had a very delicate and difficult task to balance between diametrically opposing rights and interests of various interested parties. The Court's judgments show a consensus only regarding the question of the existence of the right to abortion in cases where the right to life and health of women is endangered. Opponents of abortion claim that in this case, it is not the right to abortion, but the right to life of a woman and that only then an abortion is allowed and justified to be performed, as well as that it is a conclusion that can be deduced from the Court's case law. However, the author of this paper believes that even though the practice of the court is quite neutral, it still tends more towards granting the right to safe abortion.

Highlights

  • it comes to its scope

  • of those questions is the issue of the right to abortion

  • which is the subject of numerous controversies among lawyers

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Summary

Međunarodno pravo i pitanje abortusa

Globalno gledano debata o abortusu ide u pravcu dominacije pro life struje, legalizovanja abortusa i priznavanja pravu na abortus statusa ljudskog prava. Zakon o ratifikaciji Konvencije o ukidanju svih oblika diskriminacije žena) propisano je da žene i muškarci imaju jednako pravo na slobodu odgovornog odlučivanja o broju dece i vremenskom razmaku između njih, dok je istovremeno propisano i pravo na pristup informacijama, obrazovanju i sredstvima koja bi im mogla omogućiti ostvarivanje tih prava. Godine (Zakon o ratifikaciji Konvencije Ujedinjenih nacija o pravima deteta) ostavljena je široka sloboda svakoj državi da odredi svoj stav u odnosu na prava deteta pre rođenja. Koja su u skladu s pravima žena, moraju biti upotrebljena u cilju smanjivanja pre svega broja neželjenih trudnoća, a onda i abortusa. 2 propisuje: „Pravo na život svakog lica zaštićeno je zakonom“ (Zakon o ratifikaciji Evropske konvencije za zaštitu ljudskih prava i osnovnih sloboda). S druge strane, članom 8 se štite prava i interesi žene kroz pravo na privatni i porodični život, zbog čega je odgovor na ova pitanja potrebno potražiti u praksi Suda

Evropske države i pravo na abortus
Praksa Evropskog suda za ljudska prava
Zaključna razmatranja
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