Keywords: unborn children, legal protection, inalienable rights of women, rights and interests of the child. Protecting the Rights of the Unborn Child Unborn or future children require wider legal protection compared to the one they have today. Basic human rights, starting with the right to life, the right to dignity, the right to health protection and other rights, such as protection from all forms of violence, are tied to the concept of legal subjectivity, which, by carefully reading international and regional documents, today has a different dimension than before. Unborn children are recognized as a category that should be given a chance for equal treatment and protection from harmful influences, based on the law. This is increasingly indicated by medical science that the rights of the fetus should be protected, in accordance with the scientific achievements of perinatology. This certainly does not exclude but rather supports the right and freedom of women to decide on the birth of children/in deciding whether to have children. The civilisational achievements of the new age/era do not exclude the achievements won long ago in national legislation and the special protection of pregnant women. It is about the fact that the law must also protect other rights and (or) relevant legal interests of the unborn child, and not only the hereditary rights established by Roman law. All rights reserved Novi Sad: Provincial Protector of Citizens – Ombudsman; Belgrade : Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research https://unilib.phaidrabg.rs/o:10053 ISBN: 978-86-89417-17-3978-86-80756-50-9 Yearbook Human rights protection : from childhood to the right to a dignified old age : human rights and institutions No.5 number: 5 startpage: 257 endpage: 273 info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart application/pdf 1391759 bytes Pavlović, Zoran eng 2022