Rights (Claims) of Parents and the Child’s Welfare

In the contemporary bioethical disputes, which are at the same time political, what is often put forward is the argument of the right to have or not have a child. According to the supporters of this right, it is a consequence of widely promoted reproduction rights (which are an expression of the so-called reproductive medicine). Such a perspective constitutes an expression of a peculiar asymmetry — claims with relation to the child do not correspond with the rights of the child. The mentioned idea, visible in the acts of the codified law, is the subject of Church criticism. In place of the claims with relation to the child, the Church, by the means of John Paul II’s words, formulates an original idea and the charter on the rights of the child.