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Reproductive rights of women in the countries of the Visegrad Convention
Žaloudková, Dominika ; Janoušková, Anežka (advisor) ; Dvořák, Jan (referee)
The topic of this thesis is women's reproductive rights in the Visegrad Group countries, focusing mainly on the issue of abortion. It compares the various legal regulations of these countries in the field of abortion legislation, from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. All the countries compared share a similar history to some extent, yet each has developed differently since 1989. The thesis is structured into 8 chapters. The first chapter presents the issue of reproductive rights in general and their historical development. The second chapter defines the terms related to artificial termination of pregnancy, followed by a brief description of the methods of performing abortions and finally it presents the two main currents of opinion of the professional community regarding abortion. The third chapter focuses on the right to abortion as a human right. It describes how the various fundamental human rights conflict when performing an abortion. The following four chapters are devoted to the specific legislation of the Visegrad Group countries - the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary. Each chapter describes in detail the development of abortion legislation and the processes that preceded it. At the same time, the most problematic parts of the legislation are highlighted, as...
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Comparison of abortion and contraceptive behaviour in 2009 and 2019 in selected European countries
Idlbeková, Bára ; Kocourková, Jiřina (advisor) ; Fait, Tomáš (referee)
Comparison of abortion and contraceptive behaviour in 2009 and 2019 in selected European countries Abstract The main objective of this thesis is to determine to what extent abortion behaviour contraceptive patterns have changed from 2009 to 2019 in selected European countries. The first chapter discusses the aims, research questions and structure of the thesis. The second chapter contains the theoretical framing of the thesis and focuses on basic information about abortion in the context of the 2nd demographic transition, opinion trends, legislation and last but not least contraception. In the third chapter, resources and methodology are presented. In the analytical part of the thesis, Chapter 4 outlines the level of abortion rates among European countries and then conducts a cluster analysis in order to detect groups of countries with similar abortion behaviour and to identify patterns of abortion behaviour in 2009 and 2019. From the resulting abortion patterns, representatives of each group of patterns were selected and their abortion rates and contraceptive prevalence were compared graphically. The last chapter of the analytical part of the thesis examines societal attitudes towards justification of abortion, where the relationship of social factors (gender, age, education, religious beliefs and...
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