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    STUDIA BIOETHICA - Issue no. 2 / 2015  
         
  Article:   SLOVAKIA FORCED STERILIZATION ON RROMA WOMEN PRACTICES. AN ETHICAL CASE ANALYSIS.

Authors:  MARIA ALUAȘ. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The paper presents some ethical considerations regarding forced sterilization practice on Roma women in some countries in Eastern Europe, a case from Slovakia. These practices are done by decades in same countries and Slovakia was the first case jugged by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France. Thinking to the facts we realize that we are facing with huge risks for patients and not only for Roma people, but for all us. Patients go to the doctors because of his or her profession, and because they are sick and they need help. They do not go to doctors because of his or her personal opinion on something, and if doctors do not act for patients good, patients will lose trust and confidence and they will be afraid to go to the hospital. Today we talk about Roma people, but who knows what kind of discrimination criteria will be tomorrow, or in few years? We need doctors who do their job in a properly way and who knows very well the nature of their profession and its limits. This is the take-away message from this case.

Keywords: forced sterilization practices, Roma women, bioethics principles, legal aspects, informed consent 		 
         
     
         
         
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