Abstract:This paper analyses the legal and medical aspects of the work of ethics
committees on abortion. According to the legislation of the Republic of
Serbia, these committees are competent to determine justifiable terms for
abortion after the twentieth week of the fetus. It is well known that
abortion is not only a medical but a legal, ethic, social and demographic
problem as well. A liberal solution in view of abortion in the first
trimester has been accepted in most European countries, as by the … Show more
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