BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH OF HUMAN EMBRYOS: INTERNATIONAL LEGAL AND COMPARATIVE LEGAL ASPECTS
The article discusses the studies of human embryos in the international legal and comparative legal aspects. With this purpose, examines the numerous international instruments, in particular the Convention on the protection of the rights and dignity of the human being with regard to the application of biology and medicine, the additional Protocol to the Convention on biomedical research and others, as well as legislation of various foreign countries on the conduct of research with human embryos. In result of the conducted research the author comes to the conclusion about the necessity of improving the legislation of the Republic of Belarus, valid in this region.