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By Jerzy Kwaśniewski, The Remnant, August 30, 2024

Jerzy Kwaśniewski is the President of the Board and co-founder of Poland’s Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture Foundation. He has extensive experience in civil litigation and penal proceedings which are focused on the protection of civil rights and freedoms, the rights of the family, and children’s rights. The Ordo Iuris Institute was created in 2013 and has since become Poland’s largest legal think tank, and one of Europe’s main ones on the conservative side. It primarily focuses on the right to life, the defense of the family, the defense of individual freedoms, and national sovereignty.

Unregulated In Vitro Fertilization Is Not the Right Solution

In July, a Polish court gave satisfaction to the mother of a frozen child who had been conceived through in vitro fertilization.

The Radom District Court issued a landmark, precedent-setting ruling on the defense of life from the moment of conception. Thanks to the commitment of our lawyers, the right to life of a particular child, frozen as an embryo through an in vitro procedure, was successfully defended. For years, Poland’s Ordo Iuris Institute has been combining its efforts to promote good laws with active advocacy for positive court rulings in cases involving defending the lives of the unborn.

“The Ordo Iuris Institute provided (free) legal assistance to the mother in this case because, while there is no doubt that in vitro fertilization is an unethical method with low effectiveness and which dehumanizes children, in this particular situation we were dealing with a procedure that had already begun, and where the child, frozen in liquid nitrogen, was waiting for a chance to be born,” commented Paweł Szafraniec, the mother’s attorney, who works for our legal think tank’s Process Intervention Center. …