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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday signed a bill enabling people with certain diseases to legally adopt children who are living with them.
Before this bill was signed, a 2013 list of diseases created by the Russian government banned all adoption proceedings by disease-positive individuals. This ban prevented individuals seeking to be parents or legal guardians of children unless they could demonstrate persistent remission.
Individuals infected with HIV, Hepatitis C, tuberculosis and other diseases are now able to adopt children who already live with them “due to previously established family relations.” This bill applies where the best interest of a child is served by remaining in the care of a parent or guardian who is or has become infected.
The passage of this bill follows a constitutional court case that ruled it unconstitutional to prevent HIV-positive families from adopting. In the case, a woman was infected by HIV following a miscarriage before later having a child via surrogacy. Before the court’s decision, she was precluded from adopting her own child. Despite this development, the bill continues to exclude open adoption proceedings by disease-positive individuals.
Russian stigma associated with HIV is pervasive, and Putin’s administration has done little to combat the epidemic. The signing of this bill may be a small indication of future policy shifts.
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Before this bill was signed, a 2013 list of diseases created by the Russian government banned all adoption proceedings by disease-positive individuals. This ban prevented individuals seeking to be parents or legal guardians of children unless they could demonstrate persistent remission.
Individuals infected with HIV, Hepatitis C, tuberculosis and other diseases are now able to adopt children who already live with them “due to previously established family relations.” This bill applies where the best interest of a child is served by remaining in the care of a parent or guardian who is or has become infected.
The passage of this bill follows a constitutional court case that ruled it unconstitutional to prevent HIV-positive families from adopting. In the case, a woman was infected by HIV following a miscarriage before later having a child via surrogacy. Before the court’s decision, she was precluded from adopting her own child. Despite this development, the bill continues to exclude open adoption proceedings by disease-positive individuals.
Russian stigma associated with HIV is pervasive, and Putin’s administration has done little to combat the epidemic. The signing of this bill may be a small indication of future policy shifts.
The post Putin signs bill enabling some HIV-positive individuals to adopt appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.
Continue reading...
Note: We don't have any responsibilities about this news. Its been posted here by Feed Reader and we had no controls and checking on it. And because News posted here will be deleted automatically after 21 days, threads are closed so that no one spend time to post and discuss here. You can always check the source and discuss in their site.