Polish Law and the Constitution guarantee both the right and duty to make informed decisions about one's own health. The ability to conceive is an individual asset and does not belong to society, only to a particular person. You need to consider all options, risks and benefits and make the best decision possible for you.
For Prof. Marian Filar, who heads the Department of Criminal Law and Criminal Policy at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, the issue is simple: The ability to conceive is an individual asset and does not belong to society, only to a particular person. If he agrees that this capability should be lost, and there is even a several percent chance of a reverse procedure, then there is no problem.
Polish law is steadily adapting to Western European solutions, where in the vast majority of countries vasectomy is not only legal, but sometimes, as in England or Ireland, it is sometimes reimbursed by the health funds there.
According to Prof. Witold Kulesza, a prominent criminalist from the University of Łódź, there is also a chance for full recognition of vasectomy in Poland in the near future, provided that: it will be performed by a doctor as a part of a therapeutic activity dictated by the need to improve health, understood not only as the absence of disease, but also the well-being of the Patient. There is no such provision in the law yet, but such a practice already exists. That's why prosecutors don't deal with the doctors performing the procedures. They are gradually beginning to show more understanding for non-therapeutic medical treatments.
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DR KRETOWICZ
