O „istocie ludzkiej” – status prawny i aksjologiczny życia ludzkiego w prenatalnej fazie rozwoju na przykładzie wybranych dokumentów prawnych Rady Europy na gruncie piśmiennictwa polskiego
About Human Being – Legal and Axciological Status of Human Life in the Prenatal Stage of Development Based on Selected Acts of the Council of Europe in the Light of Polish Literature

Summary/Abstract: The following article is the result of deliberations on the interdisciplinary debate conducted around the the status of prenatal human life in selected documents of the Council of Europe. The methodological basis for the studies was the content analysis of selected legislative documents announced by the CoE between 1976 and 2003. All divagations are taken from the legal and social perspective and focused on the European Convention on Human Rights and Bioethics. In this paper, I made a brief presentation of selected deeds established by the CoE that apply for the protection of human life in its prenatal stage. I have endeavored to present the difficulty of developing a coherent definition of the following concepts: “human being” and “person”. There is not any legal designation of this two terms. Furthermore, the following paper raise the topic of human rights and the scope of its protection. The summarization of this article contains of a verdict of the European Court of Human Rights of 8th July 2004 on Vo v. France.

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