Stehlikova (Greens) said people do not have enough time to consider whether they should give consent to their sterilisation. That is why the government committee for human rights and biomedicine has proposed a 30-day deadline for people to consider their consent. The proposal will be submitted to the government within the Health Ministry's bill on special medical services in August. The cases of unwanted sterilisation started to be discussed in the Czech Republic a few years ago after the European Roma Rights Centre disclosed its suspicion of forced sterilisations of Romany women in the country. Last October, a court in Ostrava, north Moravia, ordered that a Romany woman receive 500,000 crowns in compensation for unwanted sterilisation. "We propose the CSSD still most popular Czech party ahead of ODS - poll ...
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Up to now, such commissions have mainly comprised doctors from the medical facility that is to perform the surgery. Stehlikova wants this to change. She wants the commissions to become fully independent, with experts outside the given hospital prevailing among their members.
(Ceske Noviny)
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