To the perfection of criminal and legal measures to protect the family and in connection with the emergence of new reproductive technologies
The article is devoted to one of the ways to overcome the demographic crisis is the development of medicine, in particular the use of new reproductive technologies in the treatment of infertility, the introduction of which leads to the emergence of new social relations and, accordingly, the need for their state regulation through the norms of family, civil and, in our opinion, criminal law. Surrogate motherhood is the bearing and birth of a child (including premature birth) under a contract concluded between a surrogate mother (a woman who fetuses a fetus after carrying a donor embryo) and potential parents whose sex cells were used for fertilization, or a single woman for whom carrying and the birth of a child is impossible for medical reasons (the article 55 of the Federal Law of the Russian Federation of November 21, 2011 No. 323 FZ "On the fundamentals of protecting the health of citizens in the Russian Federation" ). Proceeding from the public significance of family relations and the state's duty to protect the family, motherhood and childhood (article 38 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation), the article substantiates the expediency of establishing criminal liability for disclosure of information about the birth of a child due to the use of reproductive technologies.