PRAWNE ASPEKTY ZGODY CIĘŻARNEJ KOBIETY NA LECZENIE

Abstract

The paper focuses on situations in which a consent to medical treatment is given or refused with regards medical procedures o f perinatologie nature, where the subject who has got the right to grant such a consent, is a pregnant woman, even i f the medical treatment shall not only be applied to her body, but shall often serve to save the life o f the unborn baby. In the light o f the present legal regulations, a fetus is not an independent patient. It only becomes one when a pregnant woman registers as a patient. A fetus as a patient, regardless of how invasive the surgery is, and what purposes it serves, is not the subject of medical treatment.