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LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

of June 15, 2012 No. 138

About reproductive health

(as amended on 20-01-2023)

The Parliament adopts this organic law.

This law recognized, regulates and guarantees the human rights to reproductive health which are integral part of human rights. Provisions of this law follow from constitutional right on respect and protection of intimate, family and private life and provide non-interference of the state to questions of planning of family.

Chapter I General provisions

Article 1. Subject of the law

This law establishes the legal basis in the field of protection of reproductive health of the population for the purpose of ensuring fundamental human right for health protection and medical care, proceeding from the following tasks:

a) determination of the principles of state policy in the field of protection of reproductive health;

b) establishment of legal guarantees for realization of the sexual reproductive rights of the population;

c) determination of the rights, obligations, powers and responsibility of the legal entities and physical persons performing activities in the field of protection of reproductive health;

d) determination of the legal basis of the auxiliary reproductive technologies consisting in artificial insemination and extracorporal fertilization.

Article 2. Basic concepts

For the purposes of this law the following basic concepts mean:

reproductive health - condition of physical, intellectual and social wellbeing in all that concerns reproductive system, throughout human life. As a result, reproductive health implies safe sexual life, opportunity to bring forth offspring and freedom to decide when as often and whether in general to get posterity; reproductive health includes the right of women and men to information and access to safe, effective, available and acceptable planning methods of family at its sole option, and also the right to access to the corresponding medical services which will provide to the woman safe incubation of pregnancy and safe childbirth;

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