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These views toward abortion are still referenced and used by several modern Islamic theologians and scholars. [ 1 ] According to religious studies scholar Zahra Ayubi, historically, Muslim thought was more concerned with the topic of preservation of human life and safeguarding of the mother's life than with determining when life begins. [ 11 ]
Shaikh has published works on Muslim women and gendered violence, feminist approaches to the Qur'an and hadith, contraception and abortion in Islam, and gender and Islamic law. [2] Shaikh was a 2016-2017 fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg Zu Berlin on the project "Gender, Justice and Muslim Ethics."
The fundamental basis of Islamic bioethics is that, all rulings and actions must fall into accordance with Islamic law and Islamic ethics.By evaluating bioethical issues from and ethical and legal standpoint, jurists can issue decrees or fatwas regarding the permissibility of the pertaining subject.
Abortion is perceived as murder by many religious conservatives. [4] Anti-abortion advocates believe that legalized abortion is a threat to social, moral, and religious values. [4] Religious people who advocate abortion rights generally believe that life starts later in the pregnancy, for instance at quickening, after the first trimester. [5]
After ensoulment, all schools of Islam allow abortion to save the life of the mother, and in the case of an intrauterine death (miscarriage), but on little other grounds. However, there is a growing movement to allow abortion for malformed foetuses whose deaths are inevitable shortly after birth. [ 15 ]
Afghan legislation is based heavily on Islamic views on abortion. [8] Article 3 of Chapter 1 outlines that no law in Afghanistan should contradict Islam. [8] The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission was created to protect human rights and as a response to Shia Family Law, which violates human rights. [9]
In her well-known and influential article "A Defense of Abortion", [45] [46] Judith Jarvis Thomson argues that abortion is in some circumstances permissible even if the embryo is a person and has a right to life because the embryo's right to life is overtrumped by the woman's right to control her body and its life-support functions; in short ...
Islamic law scholar Faisal Kutty [8] argues that this report and a number of other developments in the area provide for some optimism that we may be at the cusp of a sea change in this area. [7] Kutty argues that the belief that closed adoption, as practiced in the West, is the only acceptable form of permanent childcare is a significant ...