Legalisation of intentional abortation in Czechoslovakia in the year 1957

The thesis The legalization of intentional abortion in Czechoslovakia i the year 1957 describes this topic in light of history- based on accessible historical documents- within the context of contemporary disputes and the creation of this law. In the preamble are given the discursions to theological ethics and church law, which should have sat this thesis in context of catholic theology. The thesis reflects also the progress and attepmts at full legalization of abortions soon after the Czechoslovakia was brought into being. The abortion act was enacted in the end of the year 1957. This fact is compared within the international situation. In addition more carefully is described the progress of the abortion act in USSR and several states of the Eastern bloc. The thesis also etchs in the activities of so-called "Prolicidal boards", which were settled down by the czechoslovakia government. These boards brought along that in the year of 1957 were abortions permitted only with partial restrictions. Intermediate abortion were at large allowed by the new abortion act as late as in the year of 1986. Keywords: Abortion Czechoslovakia 1957 Legalization Population La