Draft bill #10448 of January 30, 2024
Cosponsors: a group of 89 MPs from the factions Servant of the People, Batkivshchyna, Holos, and European Solidarity with Oksana Dmytriieva as the first signatory
Status: adopted
Who is affected: service members and persons equated to them, families of deceased service members
Summary:
- persons who decide to preserve their reproductive cells will have the right to decide on how they will be used in case of their death
- such a decision will have to be attested by a notary
- if reproductive cells are used for conceiving a child, their owner will be recognized as the parent of that child
- reproductive cells of a deceased person will be stored for free for three years after his or her death/after the person is declared legally dead. After that, a person whom the deceased authorized to decide on the use of their reproductive cells can continue to preserve the cells at their own expense.
What is right:
- the adoption of this bill will allow men and women to become parents after death.
Background information: on December 21, the President signed a law to fulfill the right to post-traumatic parenthood for combat veterans. However, this law does not cover cases when a service member or police officer dies and their biomaterial is used to ensure posthumous parenthood with the consent of the other spouse.