BODY OF RA CITIZEN AFTER DEATH…

/ombudsman
04:22 pm | March 02, 2010 |

The RA Ombudsman addressed the Constitutional Court with the demand
to find out how constitutional Article 7 of the RA law on "Transfer
of human organs and/or tissues" is.

The article is entitled "Precondition for agreeing to take organs
and tissues from the dead body of a donor".

According to that, organs and tissues can’t be taken only if the
given person has refused to be a donor for organs and tissues during
his/her living years by the order prescribed by RA legislation.

According to Ombudsman Armen Harutyunyan, the disputed norm contradicts
the RA Constitution with several corroborations-a person decides and
is in charge of the fate of his body, including after the death of
the latter.

According to the Ombudsman, the legal regulations of social relations
connected with taking donor’s organs and tissues must be clear and
definite based on the international principle that "the personal
interests and well-being are above the interests of the public and
science and the norms of morality, public awareness of the law,
development and levels of information must be taken into account."