A possibilidade da concretização do direito fundamental à reprodução humana assistida

Abstract

The research addresses the existence of a fundamental right of access to assisted human reproductive techniques in Brazil. It starts with the analysis of several international rules on reproductive rights, as well as principles of bioethics, in order to enter the Brazilian internal rules concerning the right to health, family planning and human dignity. Therefore, in the face of so many problems hindering the effectiveness of social rights, it is imperative that the Brazilian jurists ponder the right to having a legitimate child and regulating one s offspring, according to the reality of public finances in a country such as Brazil. Thus, the contempt for the exercise of a right which has legal and constitutional grounds is unacceptable, as highlighted several times in this research. Moreover, it provides great importance to administrative rules issued by the Brazilian State seeking the provision of assisted human reproductive services by SUS. In that respect, it also investigates how these services are being provided to the population of the State of Alagoas. In the pursuit of effectiveness, the research shows the doctrinal constructions that follow the theme, such as the reserve of the possible, the existential minimum, the prohibition of retroceding and judicial activism. Still in the midst of this research, the few judgments that are concerned with the issue in Brazil are analyzed from a critical standpoint of view in order to contribute to future court decisions that will deal with the matter, since the social situation announces that such demands will grow sharply in the Brazilian Judiciary. Finally, the most appropriate legal ways to exercise this right are discussed.