REPRODUCTIVE HUMAN RIGHTS: AN URGENT PROBLEM OF THE PRESENT OR A MATTER OF THE FUTURE?

Abstract

The article examines the relevance of research
and legal regulation/enshrinement of reproductive
human rights in the legislation of states. In particular,
the article analyzes the normative definition of the
concept of “reproductive human rights” in Ukrainian legislation, international documents and regulations of regional human rights protection systems (the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, Pact of San José, etc.). The article also focuses on the legal regulation and enshrining of the right to artificial termination of pregnancy (abortion) and the right to postmortem reproduction, and then proposes the constitutionalization of these rights in Ukraine, taking into account foreign constitutional doctrine and the state of regulation of these rights in Ukraine.

Keywords: reproductive rights, human rights, constitutionalization of human rights, IV generation of human rights.