The personal dignity of the embryo as the basis for the pharmacist’s refusal to sell emergency contraception Cover Image

Godność osobowa embrionu a odmowa sprzedaży przez farmaceutę środków antykoncepcji awaryjnej
The personal dignity of the embryo as the basis for the pharmacist’s refusal to sell emergency contraception

Author(s): Krzystof Nowicki
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Sociology of Law, Labour and Social Security Law
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Keywords: transcription of birth certificates; human rights; European Union law

Summary/Abstract: A group of pharmacists is calling for regulation of the applicability of the conscience clause when refusing to sell agents classified as emergency contraception. In the article it is shown that the proper reason for refusing to sell emergency contraception agents should be the implementation of the constitutional meta-axiology of human dignity, not the axiology of freedom of conscience. The proper implementation of legal dogmatics, which shows human dignity as a source of freedoms and rights, including freedom of conscience, should be applied. Personal dignity, which is inherent, inalienable, inviolable, equal, universal, and which is the foundation of the legal order, should be a sufficient reason for a pharmacist’s refusal to sell means classified as emergency contraception.

  • Issue Year: 44/2023
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 65-78
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish