Parliament authorized the preservation of reproductive tissues of fallen soldiers – both men and women.
The previous day, the Verkhovna Rada resolved the issues of reproductive cells of fallen soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Let’s remember that this scandal was incredibly excited on social networks in mid-January. Ukrainians began to resent the fact that people’s representatives did not want to preserve the country’s gene pool or pay benefits to the children of the defenders of Ukraine.
Sperm scandal
In the spring of 2023, the Verkhovna Rada adopted in the first reading the bill No. 8011, which granted the right at the state level to use the reproductive cells of Ukrainian military personnel if they lost their reproductive function due to wounds, trauma or concussion. The law was passed in its entirety in November and also includes the right to free storage of reproductive cells.
However, in January it became known that the document contained a provision for the disposal of biomaterial in the event of the death of military personnel. Accordingly, Ukrainian law, in principle, contains a gap on the issue of posthumous paternity.
This caused a scandal in social networks. The representatives of the people began to respond to this and ensured that the clause on the disposal of sperm was “dragged” at the last moment and apparently it was not approved by the relevant committee of the Rada.
Later, the head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Health, Mikhail Radutsky, promised to solve the issue.
New changes
On February 7, parliament adopted legislative amendments allowing the preservation and use of reproductive cells of deceased military personnel for the birth of children.
In particular, the Verkhovna Rada adopted bill No. 10448 (on maintaining the gene pool of Ukrainian citizens) as a whole and the bill No. 10450 (amending the Civil Code) on first reading. These two documents, as Radutsky noted, allow the families of heroes killed in the war to take advantage of this method.
According to the representative of the people, the most important change in bill No. 10448 is:
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The guardian or guardian whose reproductive cells are stored in cryobanks must designate in the will a responsible person in case of death.
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In the event of the death of a guardian or guardian, the reproductive cells are preserved at the expense of the state for 3 years. After this time, additional storage can be extended using other people’s funds specified in the will.
That is, for the first time at the legislative level in Ukraine, citizens have the opportunity to dispose of their reproductive cells in the event of their death, declared dead or missing by the court.
This standard applies to any Ukrainian, not just military personnel. And in the case of the birth of children, the deceased person is “recognized as the father or mother of the child born.”
As for bill No. 10450, necessary to establish the basic aspects of the disposal of cells and the settlement of paternity issues. To this end, the Rada makes appropriate changes to Article 281 of the Civil Code.
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Source: korrespondent
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