ADELINA SARGSYAN

PhD in Law,

Lecturer at the Department of Criminal Law and

Criminal Procedure Law Institute of Law and Politics of the

Russian-Armenian University

HRAYR AGHAVELYAN

4th year student at the Institute of Law of the Faculty

of Law of the Russian-Armenian University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59546/18290744-2024.7-9-64

Annotation.

Currently, the rapid development of the latest biomedical technologies puts on the agenda the need for their proper legislative regulation. One of these technologies is human cloning, which raises a number of ethical and legal issues. Unfortunately, at present, the criminal legislation of the Republic of Armenia, unlike the legislation of a number of foreign countries, provides for criminal liability only for reproductive cloning, thereby leaving therapeutic cloning outside the scope of criminal protection. In this article, based on the analysis of international legal acts regulating cloning issues, studying the positive foreign experience of legislative regulation, the authors attempt to analyze cloning and present their vision of its criminal legal regulation. In connection with the above, the authors raise the issue of insufficient criminal law regulation of the ethical and legal aspects of cloning. In particular, noting the importance of observing the principle of protecting human dignity, the authors point to the expediency of criminalization and therapeutic cloning, in which the obtained embryonic stem cells are used for the purpose of reproduction and cultivation of new organs. The authors point out the inadmissibility of the destruction of the embryo and its use for any purpose.

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