Legal Aspects of Sex Selection Technology: Legislative Horizons (Approach Toward Domestic Laws and International Rules)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Rushdie Institute of Higher Education, Tabriz, Iran. Correspoding Author Email: Navid.zamani90@gmail.com

2 L.L.M, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran

10.52547/jlr.2022.228786.2313

Abstract

 
Today, one of the important challenges facing legal issues is how to enact laws to systematize new technologies. The technology of fetus sex selection, as a phenomenon that can have wide legal dimensions, has faced the challenge of lacking specific and binding laws in Iran. Although the technology of fetus sex selection is one of the medical law issues, it has different aspects and effects that can be discussed from a social, political, cultural and even economic point of view. The issue is that in the framework of the legislation for this technology, different dimensions such as the limits of legitimacy, applicable restrictions, human rights rules, contractual governing system and population policies should be taken into consideration and according to the social and cultural facts of Iran; precise solutions should be taken to normalize it. This Article seeks to explain these issues through analytical-comparative method by studying the laws of other countries and international rules and by analyzing the current legal system of Iran in this technology field; it aims to present the general overview of the legislation regarding the fetus sex selection.

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  • Receive Date: 18 September 2022
  • Revise Date: 08 December 2022
  • Accept Date: 31 December 2022

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