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The article deals with the attitude of the Russian Orthodox Church to the human prenatal development. Due to the increase of high reproductive technologies application around the world including Russia the Russian Orthodox Church admits the necessity of stating its own opinion of the human embryo value. The research is based on the analysis of hagiographical materials, biblical texts, liturgical tradition, church iconography, patristic heritage. The paper concludes that the Russian Church considers the human Embry...

The continuous reduction of the population in the Russian Federation is a serious reason to develop a concept of reproductive rights by Russian legislators which would first of all consider the interests of the nation as a whole. The Russian legislation which does not define the legal status of a human embryo, in which induced termination of pregnancy is considered to be legal, and which gives no legal ground concerning substitute motherhood. In our opinion, such an approach to understanding reproductive rights do...