[Legal regulations as an instrument of family planning]

Basic biodemographic tendencies in human reproduction in the Kosovo region are analysed. The natality level is recorded to be high (1972--1978: 37.0--35.3 per 1000 inhabitants), along with the low values of the proportion of abortions per 1000 women of the generative age (26.6--24.8), the proportion of abortions per 1000 liveborn children (157--154.1), and the proportion of abortions per 1000 inhabitants (5.8--5.7). The authors concluded that the problem of human reproduction in the country has been consequently and many-sidedly regulated by the country's highest legislative acts. In their opinion, the introduction of sterilization by law would be an inappropriate instrument, incapable of replacing social, medical, economic, cultural, and other measures; its use should be limited only within the boundary of medical indications.