Prenatal protection of fundamental rights

Abstract

Every age, every society, has thought about prenatal existence in some way, and has mapped it out in its system of rules. This is still the case today, but due to the medical and biological advances of the last few decades, man's knowledge today is incomparably more complex than in previous ages. Following an international and cross-generational review of the complex and sometimes problematic legal situation of the embryo, through the development of the current Hungarian legislation and the new legal situations brought into being by medical science, it is worth considering whether and to what extent legal science is able to follow, and thus interpret and deal with, the overall picture drawn by the natural sciences in the 21st century.