Abstract
The stimulus for writing the paper was an invitation to participate in the academic conference “St. John Paul II’s natural law legacy and international human rights: toward a century of persuasion”, organized by Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University and Ave Maria International School of Law. I offered to share the Latvian experience of the last twenty-five years in the field of the defence of family values, taking into account cooperation between different religious communities in Latvia.
The study is based on selected international and Latvian law documents, as well as documents dealing with the issues raised and published in Latvian mass media. In the cited joint letters of religious leaders and my articles from 2002, an analysis is cited regarding the facts and materials in the field of defence of conceived life and family values. The article provides insights into the main topics discussed in Latvian society over the last two decades.