Czechia: The Regulation and Legal Practice of Assisted Reproductive Technologies and the Best Interests of the Child

In addition to increasing reproductive tourism, human infertility and rapidly developing assisted reproductive technologies are ‘burning’ issues not only for lawmakers, but also for the judges deciding on the recognition of a foreign public document when the registry office declines to register the birth of a child delivered by a surrogate mother for intended parents abroad. However, this topic must be seen in its broader context. It is about a new way of looking at family life, family law, parenthood and human rights, including the rights of the child in the case of the anonymity of germ cell donation and the best interests of the child born through surrogacy, in the context of family policy and public order.