FORMATION OF UNIFIED LEGAL PRINCIPLES OF REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE LEGISLATION IN THE COUNTRIES OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES

The paper considers the problems associated with the protection of maternity, paternity, and childhood, which are urgent to all the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The legislation regulating reproductive health care in the CIS countries is analyzed; structural changes, by developing and adopting the national laws and state policy aimed at observing the population’s reproductive rights, are highlighted. The main stages and content of the concept of the Model Law on the Protection of Reproductive Health and Rights in the CIS countries, which will be the basis for shaping the internal legislation on reproductive health care in the citizens of the CIS countries, are considered.

reproductive health, population’s reproductive rights, demographic policy of the state, family planning