Zelensky signs law on reproductive cells of fallen soldiers
Kyiv • UNN
President Zelensky signed a law that allows clinics to store frozen reproductive cells of fallen soldiers for 3 years to preserve Ukraine's gene pool and ensure their right to biological parenthood.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed the law "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine on Preserving the Gene Pool of the Ukrainian People," which allows clinics to store frozen reproductive cells of dead soldiers in cryobanks for three years. UNN reports this with reference to the draft law card.
Details
As stated in the explanatory note to the document, the draft law was developed to preserve the gene pool of the Ukrainian people, as well as to regulate the issue of social protection of military personnel in terms of ensuring their right to biological paternity (motherhood).
The law provides:
- in case of death or declaration of death of a person whose reproductive cells are stored, their free storage is carried out within 3 years from the date of death of this person, and after this period, further storage of such cells may be continued at the expense of another person specified in the person's order regarding his/her own reproductive cells;
- an individual whose reproductive cells are stored in accordance with the law has the right to dispose of them in the event of his or her death.
- in case of use of reproductive cells of a person who has made a corresponding order in case of his/her death for conception of a child, this individual is recognized as the father or mother of the child born in such a way;
- will of the person made and notarized before the entry into force of this Law in respect of their own reproductive cells, shall be the basis for the use of assisted reproductive technologies using these reproductive cells.
Recall
On February 7, the parliament passed a billthat allows clinics to store frozen reproductive cells of fallen soldiers for three years instead of disposing of them.
