Body of RA citizen after death...
The RA Ombudsman addressed the Constitutional Court with the demand to find out how constitutional Article 7 of the RA law on "Transfer of human organs and/or tissues" is.
The article is entitled "Precondition for agreeing to take organs and tissues from the dead body of a donor".
According to that, organs and tissues can't be taken only if the given person has refused to be a donor for organs and tissues during his/her living years by the order prescribed by RA legislation.
According to Ombudsman Armen Harutyunyan, the disputed norm contradicts the RA Constitution with several corroborations-a person decides and is in charge of the fate of his body, including after the death of the latter.
According to the Ombudsman, the legal regulations of social relations connected with taking donor's organs and tissues must be clear and definite based on the international principle that "the personal interests and well-being are above the interests of the public and science and the norms of morality, public awareness of the law, development and levels of information must be taken into account."
